"A good half of the art of living is resilience."

-- Alain de Botton

#Art Quotes #Resilience Quotes #Half Quotes

“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?”
“Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.”
“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.”
“I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.”
“I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafka's life. In this way it was possible to complete the volume about the early years; and, in my view, nothing substantial is missing from it.”
“By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.”
“iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.”

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