“If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.”
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
― The Sacred Wood
― The Sacred Wood
“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
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