"That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters."

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Source : Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Mort Sahl

#Feelings Quotes #Hopelessness Quotes #Masters Quotes

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it's that private perpetual struggle. Put down that magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

Source : "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.
“Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.”
“Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.”
“It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.263, Harlequin
“Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.”
“Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the â€œAha.â€ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that weâ€™re in â€” the one that we think is reality.”

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
“You cannot clap with one hand alone.”

Source : John Taylor Wood (2010). “Quotes to Nirvana”, p.44, iUniverse

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