"Thoughts are things...treat them accordingly."

-- Marshall Sylver

“I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.”
“An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.”

Source : "A Long Time Coming". Interview with Rob Hart, chuckpalahniuk.net. August 27, 2008.
“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”
“The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.”
“There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
“The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes unreal.”

Source : "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
“Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.”

Source : Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.63, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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