"If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to."

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Richard Meltzer

#Years Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Done Quotes

“You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
“Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.”
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
“I don't swim! That's like athletic.”
“The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.”

Source : Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.185, 谷月社
“Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.”
“A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.”

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