"You are either going forward or you are not."

-- Mitchell Reiss

“Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), July 24, 2005.
“Make your haters mad! Yeah, make them really mad!”
“Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.”

Source : "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.
“For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.”
“Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason that when woods are felled, when they are suppressed by tarmac and concrete and asphalt, it is not only unique species and habitats that disappear, but also unique memories, unique forms of thought.”

Source : Robert Macfarlane (2008). “The Wild Places”, p.69, Penguin
“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.13, Faber & Faber
“For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.”

Source : 1913 'Brumana'.
“I'm at my best when I'm working. Breaks are not great for me. I get frustrated sometimes, if I have a long break and somebody says, "Oh, that must be nice!"”

Source : Source: collider.com

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