"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

-- John Cage

“I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”
“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”
“My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,”

Source : "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.
“When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.”

Source : Lauren Groff (2008). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.100, Hachette UK
“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”
“To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.”
“When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.”

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