"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Real Quotes #History Quotes #World Quotes

“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.”
“Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.”
“The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.”
“As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song."”
“But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.”

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