"One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams."

-- Robin McKinley

#Pain Quotes #Memories Quotes #Ease Quotes

“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]”

Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.
“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black
“I'm a huge poster collector.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
“I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”
“I don't get mad, I get even.”
“My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.”

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