If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.J. K. Rowling
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.Simone de Beauvoir
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.Simone de Beauvoir
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.Simone de Beauvoir
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.Simone de Beauvoir
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.Blaise Pascal
