"Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world."

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Erica Jong

#Crazy Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.”
“If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.”
“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though weâ€™re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, theyâ€™ll be talking about you and me. Weâ€™ll all be lumped togetherâ€¦. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
“People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.”
“Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.”
“Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons
“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.”

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