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Never over-dramatise things, everything can be fixed; keep a certain detachment from everything; the important things in life are very few
-Giulio Andreotti
-Giulio Andreotti
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“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.” - Mick JaggerComment
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boy I would love to see that!Originally posted by swami View Post“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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/\ lol, me tooFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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"Suppose then that you began with the preposition that boredom was a kind of pain caused by unused powers, the pain of wasted possibilities or talents, and was accompanied by expectations of the optimum utilization of capacities...Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium. People rich in abilities, in sexual feeling, rich in mind and in invention - all the highly gifted see themselves shunted for decades onto dull sidings, banished exiled nailed up in chicken coops." - Humboldt's GiftComment
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You have much to learn, grasshopper.Originally posted by DanielD View Post
Stellar quote, FTB. Looks like you are farther into the book than I am.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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I love the labyrinthine, in-and-out seamlessness of Bellow's prose, I've never read anything like it.
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"Better stop dreaming of the quiet life, 'cause it's the one we'll never know." - The JamComment
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"the voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- proustComment
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston ChurchillComment
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From rags to riches to spend your riches on rags.Hobo: We all dress up. We all put on our armour before we walk out the door, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re trying to be someone else.Comment
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true attention is a state so difficult for man, a state so violent,
that any personal disturbance in sensibility is enough
to prevent it.
--Simone Weil...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.Comment
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"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now." - Bob MonkhouseComment
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Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes"
(Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhome-5)
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