You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
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I never met a man I didn’t like.
~ Will Rogers
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Psychologists, by dint of reading the precepts of Bacon and the discourses of Descartes, have mistaken their own dreams for science.
~ Auguste Comte
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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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