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- The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 12. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you., 08-22-04
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We just had a near-life experience!
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
- Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
- Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- Make a virtue of necessity.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400)
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
- O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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