"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."

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Edvard Munch

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“It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results”
“To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.”
“There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.”
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”

Source : "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.
“A staff can be no better than the man it serves.”

Source : David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.228, Modern Library
“From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.”
“I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.”
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookâ€”that string of confused, alien ciphersâ€”shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

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