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In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.
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Leo Tolstoy
“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Samuel Beckett
“One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.”
Samuel Beckett

Philip Roth
“Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare. Coal mining is hard work. This is a nightmare. . . There’s a tremendous uncertainty that’s built into the profession, a sustained level of doubt that supports you in some way. A good doctor isn’t in a battle with his work. In most professions there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. With writing, it’s always beginning again.”
Philip Roth

Michel de Montaigne
“There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.”
Montaigne, Michel de
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Graham Greene
“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
Graham Greene

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