"Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer."

-- Studs Terkel

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“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”

Source : Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.56, Penguin
“We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.”
“I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.”
“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.282, A&C Black
“Everyone's path is completely different. I could give an aspiring artist my timeline and every phone number and contact person along the way, but their experience would be carved out in a different way. It's the diligence to keep going in the face of obstacles that is your best ally. It's also important to know why you are doing this... attention, money, or because you got something to say, or at least in what order those things matter.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.”

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