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the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts. — Amor Towles

Politics is always related to the history and genealogy. — Toba Beta

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into. — Robert Altman

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. — Raymond Chandler

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. — T. S. Eliot

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say. — Alice Miller

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility. — Salman Rushdie

I think looking forward will be better than looking back. — Erin Morgenstern

The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous, - that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. — Victor Hugo

There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job ... If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need. — Ira C. Eaker

We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information ... strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the ... inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through. — Judith Viorst

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. — Twyla Tharp

My mother, writing from France, admonished me to take care of my health as she had during the war. My head could be all set for the guillotine, and still my mother would scold me for forgetting my muffler. She never missed an opportunity to try and convince me that the world is a kindly place and that she'd done a good job in conceiving me. This alleged Providence was the great subterfuge of maternal thoughtlessness. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now. — Rand Paul

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention. — Gary Vaynerchuk