"Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians."

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Source : Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

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“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.”
“Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!”
“It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice”
“Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”
“Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.”
“possibility is far more frightening than impossibility ...”
“You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.”

Source : "The Question-Driven Life" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.
“I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.”

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