I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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JeanPaul Sartre
I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction
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Carroll Bryant
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
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Greta Garbo
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the...
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Nick Harkaway
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Barry Eisler
Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>But there’s a third kind of...
Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select...
You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.' Tatsu.
If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.
It's a strange thing, having a child, " he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her. If I had to set myself on fire to...
