"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire."

-- J. K. Rowling

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“My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.”
“Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.”
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
“When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12...the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like." That definitely changed things.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasnâ€™t â€˜goodâ€™ enough. I learned that the first idea wasÂ unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal.Â The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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