"I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."

-- William Cowper

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“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.”
“I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.”
“Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be â€˜wrongâ€™, which is what our education encourages us to believe.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.80, Routledge
“Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.”
“When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.”
“If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.”
“Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.”
“In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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