"The only freedom is the freedom from the known."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Source : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
“Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.”
“I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.”
“Writing is a constant exercise in longing.”
“After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.”

Source : Josephine Tey (1998). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.”

Source : Douglas Clegg (2004). “The Machinery of Night”
“I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.”
“When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.”

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