"BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles."

-- Andy Kindler

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“I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2000). “The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel”, p.184, Grove Press
“Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1987). “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water”
“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Source : Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus
“Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.”
“Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.”

Source : c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)
“As you grow in spirituality, your whole life must improve.”
“Fact is richer than diction.”

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