"The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns."

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Source : Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone

Herman Wouk

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“You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.”
“The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.”
“I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.”
“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.”

Source : "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
“On this path, it is only the first step that counts.”
“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”
“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”

Source : Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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