"It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes."

-- Joseph Cook

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“You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.”

Source : "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.
“Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may!”
“When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.”

Source : Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.
“Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.”
“The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.”
“Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.”
“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.”
“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.430, Penguin

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