"You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance."

-- Daniel Woodrell

#Chance Quotes #Ready Quotes

“One of the products I swear by is Sante Barley.”
“All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.”

Source : Calvin Tomkins, Roy Lichtenstein (1988). “Roy Lichtenstein: mural with blue brushstroke”, ABRAMS
“I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.”
“Women are like bars of soap. After a while they lose their freshness, become worn and a bit hairy.”
“As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.278, Rutgers University Press
“Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.”
“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”
“It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.”

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