“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
John Cleese (1939) actor from England
“If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.”
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Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him. And the temptation is to some natures a very great one. Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. In common life we shirk it by forming habits, which take the place of self-determination. In politics party-organization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote.
“From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
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