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I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised. ↗

— Ben Franklin

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Nobody's perfect ↗

— Jessie J

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El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#palahniuk #rant #biography

He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lover, my confidant. But not my focus. I wasn’t lost, then found by Arne. I was single and met a wonderful man and we enjoyed each other’s company and enjoyed our times together. So it was not lost and found. That’s crap. I have never been lost. ↗

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

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I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. ↗

— Benjamin Moser

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I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography. ↗

— Ian Fleming

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ولم تعد الكتابة ما كانت عليه من قبل : أي استخراج البدايات كيفما اتفق، بل أصبحت ما هي عليه اليوم ؛ الاندفاعة القصوى ، الخشية الممتعة، الرغبةالتي أبدا لا تنضب، والحاجةالتي تمنحني النشوة ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

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The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. ↗

— Chris Thrall

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What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way? ↗

— Roland Barthes

#memory #past #present #time #biography

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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