“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
Source: Fight Club
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American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variant: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?”
Frazier makes his point. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/sports/othersports/18frazier.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=a3509c26258f5380&ex=1318824000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Healing
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Source: Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
“Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”
“Without nothing, everything would be nothing.”
"While the Sign Sleeps," p. 17
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
What's Good Full lyrics online http://www.lyricsforall.com/display/lyric/7312/2147393643/Lou+Reed/What%27s+Good/
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