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"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution."
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"Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter " even a good one with a lot of work, time is money. It seemed today that time was running out for Beck the Badfeller."

"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."

"It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well."

"There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties."

"I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation."

"The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure."

"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"

"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."

"Everyone's alone-or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations?"

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

"Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
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