Reggie

“There are variations in the quality of deviation; not all divergence from the past is culturally significant. Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance. Greater significance attaches to those variations that bring the tradition into view in a new way, allowing the familiar to be seen as unfamiliar, as requiring a new appraisal of all that we have been—and therefore of all that we are.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“soon as I had convinced myself that this stale, unprofitable world of my discontent contained such a thing as a command to be seized, I recovered my powers of locomotion.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

“He was interested in only one thing: turning out the best job he could, with the skill he possessed.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Collection

“If one of the reasons for uniting into commonwealths is the protection of property, and if property is to be protected less by power as such than by theater, then societies become acutely dependent on their artists—what Plato called poietai: the storytellers, the inventors, sculptors, poets, any original thinkers whatsoever.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games