"The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you."

-- Michael Dolan

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“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.”
“Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.”

Source : James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.7
“There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.”
“If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.”
“And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”
“The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed ***** online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.”
“Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.”

Source : "Al Sharpton’s Heated Clash With Tim Huelskamp", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.
“You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?”

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