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“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.”
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“I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.”
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“I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry" by Radiohead and "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows and he was like, "Alright, I'm gonna teach you these, but you're also gonna learn some stuff that I want you to learn." He taught me Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, so I was getting the technical stuff and the fun stuff.”
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“[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.”
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“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2008). “So I have thought of you: the letters of Penelope Fitzgerald”, Fourth Estate (GB)
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“Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.”
Source : Michel Seuphor (1964). “Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present”
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“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger”
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“My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.”
