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last updated: November 28, 2023

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.
-- Anthony Ryan

Source : Anthony Ryan (2013). “Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow”, p.333, Hachette UK

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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.156

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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt

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“Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?”
“I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.”
“That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.”
“I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”
“The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.”
“I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.”
“What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.”
“Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.”
“I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.”

Source : "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. I like Louis C.K.'s stuff or Bill Burr's stuff. I feel like there's comedy where someone will think of something that they think will work comedically, and then they reverse engineer that point of view so they can say that funny thing. The comedians I like, it could be an allusion, but it feels like their point of view comes first and then the jokes are a reflection of what they actually believe, or are frightened of, or are curious about, or are interested in.”