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Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”

Action Causes

Book:Testimony

Source: Testimony

“... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.”

Character Reign

Book:Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.”

Men World Years Made Whole Died Whole World Thirty Wretched Love Poems Untrue Happiest Man

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”

Thinking World Littles Enough Play Whole Bigs Turns Universe Stars Mines Broken Keys Fit Ocean Devil Weight Tunes Again And Again Miraculous Cabinets Trinkets Broken Things

Author:Grant Morrison

“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”

Dying Honesty

Author:Yoko Ono

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