"Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder."

-- Bernard Malamud

#Cutting Quotes #Circles Quotes #Experts Quotes

“We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.”
“Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.”
“Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 20, 2013
“So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.”
“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing
“If somthing is not right or real, dont loss your self. - Clarice Bean Dont look Now”
“You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

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