"It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design."

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Source : Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Michael Foley

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“That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.”
“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”
“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.15, Macmillan
“And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.”
“Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”
“Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.”
“I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.”
“I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.”

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