"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine."

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Jim Carroll

“When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.”
“Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.”
“You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep-great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”

Source : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.
“An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.”
“The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.”
“Iâ€™ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.”

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