"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."

-- Antonin Artaud

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“You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.”
“The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.”
“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”
“Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.”
“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”

Source : David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.2, Princeton University Press
“Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.”
“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”
“I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.”

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