"I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing -- I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project -- it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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“Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.”
“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”
“I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.”
“Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.”
“I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.”

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“It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.”
“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”
“She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.”

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