"One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."

-- Walter Isaacson

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
“When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.”
“natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.”
“Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.”
“Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt
“I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.”
“Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.”
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.”

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