"As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#People Quotes #Dull Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.”
“Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.”
“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”
“Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.”
“Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.”

Source : Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black
“Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.”
“If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.”

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