"Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!"

-- Yony Leyser

#Artist Quotes #Breaking Away Quotes #Burroughs Quotes

“If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got”
“Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.”
“I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.”

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“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
“Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Google is ridiculous. Everyone uses Google, and that's why Google has such an attitude. Because it's so popular, it's conceited. I mean, it has a serious attitude. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? 'Um, did you mean...?”
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.”
“Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.”

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