"From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation."

-- Eric Clapton

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“Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
“I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.”
“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.”
“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.”
“Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”
“I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.”
“Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.”

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