"If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry."

-- Jim Thompson

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“CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.”
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.”
“A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.”
“Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.”
“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.165, Open Road Media

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