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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. ”
I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get. ”
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. ”
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ”
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ”
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life. ”
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. ”
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ”