"One never knows, do one?"

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Source : StormyWeather (motion picture) (1943).Waller used this phrase as an actor in this film, but it was earlier a catchphrase in his singing performances.

Fats Waller

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

Source : Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.
“Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.”
“one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.”
“You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.”
“The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.”
“My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Donâ€™t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And donâ€™t think about style. Itâ€™s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.”
“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”
“Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.”

Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.

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