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It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice. Chuck Palahniuk
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain
It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions...More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. Ludwig von Mises
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us. But remember that bold women are like... Isabel Allende
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless you have plenty of work to do. Idleness to be sweet, like kisses, must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome
V. S. Naipaul quote: "It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red..."
It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things. V. S. Naipaul
It is this country that is dangerous, with her idealistic conception of legality. The social spirit of this people is wrapped up in scrupulous prejudices and that is fatal to our work.. You talk of England being our only refuge! So much the worse. What do we want with refuges ? Here you talk, print, plot, and do nothing. Joseph Conrad
Khalil Gibran quote: "Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn..."
Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart. Khalil Gibran
It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me Witold Gombrowicz
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated. Rafael Sabatini
Lewis Carroll quote: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says..."
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. Lewis Carroll
E. B. White quote: "It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is..."
It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible. E. B. White
Nick Hornby quote: "it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work..."
it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. Nick Hornby
It’s one of those unpleasant opioid feverish half-sleep states, more a fugue-state than a sleep-state, less a floating than like being cast adrift on rough seas, tossed mightily in and out of this half-sleep where your mind’s still working and you can ask yourself whether you’re asleep even as you dream. And any dreams you do have seem ragged at the edges, gnawed on, incomplete. David Foster Wallace
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out. David Foster Wallace

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