It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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I couldn’t speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I’m regarded as one of their own in Japan.
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Author : Samuel Beckett
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Author : Hank Aaron
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Author : William Faulkner
