"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

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Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

Van Wyck Brooks

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“F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them. ...My soul is that of a drummer....It came to where I had to make a decision -- I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.”
“I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.”
“I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.”
“Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.”

Source : "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 05, 2010.
“I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?”

Source : Interview with Michael Cera, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.”

Source : Source: www.pmakid.com
“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.”
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”

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