"In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything."

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Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

Tom Hodgkinson

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“I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.”
“John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.”
“They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.”
“Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.”
“Itâ€™s okay to be discouraged. Itâ€™s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress youâ€™ve decided to lay siege to in your own lifeâ€”thatâ€™s persistence.”
“In the church of my heart the choir is on fire”

Source : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1965). “Mayakovsky”
“I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.”

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