"Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion."

-- Rudolf Arnheim

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“It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.”
“I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.”

Source : "Michael Laudrup hits out over 'silly' sacking by Swansea City". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.
“You alone are responsible for what you do, donâ€™t do, or how you respond to whatâ€™s done to you.”
“In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.”
“I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.”
“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.28
“Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.83, A&C Black

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