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“You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.”
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“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.”
Source : Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”
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“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”
Source : Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.84, Hachette UK
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“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”
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“If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.”
Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.26, Penguin
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“I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it.”
Source : "Darrell Wallace Jr. Continues to Pave New Roads in NASCAR". Interview with Kimberly Wilson, www.theroot.com. January 3, 2016.
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“The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.”
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“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”