John

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John鈥檚 Quotes

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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“No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: achieving-success, leaders, leadership, progress

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“There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

tags: goodbye, home, suffering

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“Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

tags: ignorance, mortality, self-discovery, self-knowledge

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