"If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s."

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Arthur Smith

#Live Life Quotes #Writing Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.”
“We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.”
“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”

Source : "Armistead Maupin: San Francisco's chronicler calls time on his saga" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”
“Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free,”

Source : "‘The Problem With Music’ has been solved by the internet" by, qz.com. April 29, 2014.
“Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.”

Source : "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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