"BeyoncÃ© and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen."

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Clive James

#Kitchen Quotes #Amy Quotes #Classic Quotes

“A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.”
“I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much.”
“You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.”

Source : Song: Get It Right Next Time
“A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.”
“As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?”
“The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.”

Source : Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.
“Spring and Fall: To a Young Child MÃ¡rgarÃ©t, are you grÃeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? LeÃ¡ves, lÃke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! Ã¡s the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wÃll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: SÃ³rrow's sprÃngs Ã¡re the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It Ãs the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.”
“Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.”

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