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“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned.”

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it's got.”

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“As you know, Spotlight is a film about investigative journalists with the resources and the autonomy to chase down the truth and hold the powerful accountable. Best fantasy film since Star Wars.”

— Barack Obama, 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner

“One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.”

— Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

“She was depressed. She was anxious. Because she was depressed and because she was anxious she drank too much. This was called medicating herself.”

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process 'filling the well.' Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our arti…”

— Julia Cameron, The Artists Way

“But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women…”

— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Kissing is more intimate than fucking.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It’s real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you’ve suddenly become an idiot. There’s no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I thought about breakups, how difficult they were, but then usually it was only after you broke up with one woman that you met another. I had to taste women in order to really know them, to get inside of them. I could invent men in my mind because I was one, but women, for me, were almost impossible…”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulat…”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“The thought of sex as something forbidden excited me beyond all reason. It was like one animal knifing another into submission.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“Time was motionless while existence was a throbbing unbearable thing.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“As a recluse I couldn’t bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I quickly learned that being Secretary of State is really three jobs in one: the country’s chief diplomat, the President’s principal advisor on foreign policy, and the CEO of a sprawling Department.”

— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices