"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

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Aldous Huxley

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“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”
“Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.”

Source : "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.
“I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.”
“Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.”

Source : "Q&A: Generation Kill actor James Ransone answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2009.
“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.”
“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books
“I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.”
“The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.”

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