"There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from."

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Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

Andy Daly

#Attitude Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethovenâ€™s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.”

Source : "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013.
“We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.”
“All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.”

Source : JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.”
“Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called Voice of America, and through the Italian television waves, which we caught illegally through primitive, improvised antennas. The only way to escape from reality was reading books.”
“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
“To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.”

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