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Many people say that to do something difficult and worthwhile, they need to be “motivated.” Or that the reason they are not sticking to their goals is because they “lack motivation.” But the military taught me that people don’t need ...more
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Charles Willeford
“Suicide, more than any other form of death makes people indignant, that's why. The life force is all we have, and when people kill themselves, it frightens the survivors.”
Charles Willeford, Understudy for Death

Jan Kerouac
“Sometimes I did things for no reason whatsoever except that they were there to do, and it went no further. I drifted into scenes through an open door and happened to stumble through, staying until I leaked out. I had no goals, so I stabbed in the dark figuring I'd strike something solid sooner or later if I didn't die in the process.
(pg. 103)”
Jan Kerouac, Baby Driver: A Story About Myself

Lawrence Block
“We touched glasses very solemnly and drank a toast to health and love and money and time to enjoy them.”
Lawrence Block, The Girl with the Long Green Heart

Richard Tregaskis
“The lure of the front is like an opiate.”
Richard Tregaskis, Invasion Diary

George MacDonald Fraser
“Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, were ripe for counselling, but we were lucky; there were no counsellors.”
George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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