"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."

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Helen Garner

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.”
“As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.”
“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.”
“If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.”
“I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.”
“As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.”

Source : "Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.
“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.”
“If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.”

Source : Max Weber, Talcott Parsons (2003). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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