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“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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Literature and the Human Condition with Mr. Leon
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider." --Sir Francis Ba ...more
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