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Conrad Aiken

"It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!"

-- Conrad Aiken

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“Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.”
“Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.”
“People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.”
“But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.”
“Innovation requires articulation.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2014). “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
“Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.”
“You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.”
“I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.”

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