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- Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you…
- In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at…
- THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas…
- Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You…
- It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where…
- Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its…
- If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong