If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Other people’s interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

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 “I sat beside Charlie. Opposite us, in the Black Maria, was a red-haired boy of my own age, and a small man with a broken nose, a cauliflower ear, and a begrudging look. He was going up for kicking his wife. He was not unfriendly, and told me his name was Donohoe. I said that by a coincidence that was my mother’s name. It was not her name, but civility costs nothing.”
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“Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?” - Brendan Behan

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