"The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be."

“Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.”

Source : Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company

“If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don't like what's going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself.”

“One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.”

“All good performance starts with clear goals.”

Source : Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.390, FT Press

“I don't believe in colleges and universities.”

“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”

Source : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.131, Hawthorne Books

“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.”