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Hayden Carruth

"My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this."

Source : "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".

Hayden Carruth

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“I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it.”

Source : "‘Supernatural’s’ Ty Olsson On Benny’s Evolution, Friction With Sam And Castiel And More". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2012.
“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.”
“A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We] Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.”
“The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”
“I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.”
“Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.”
“Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.”
“People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.”

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