"Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny."

-- Alain de Botton

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“I'm never afraid during a game, and I have no negative thoughts. I think about what I have to do. Which players can be substituted? And where I can manage to squeeze in a slight advantage? I remain very calm, which is why I never engage in any sideline antics.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”

Source : "Rituals". Book by Cees Nooteboom, 1980.
“Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.”
“What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.”
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
“Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.”

Source : "'Indie' director Mike Mills is as happy shooting for Nike as Sonic Youth". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.”
“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.”

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