"Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame."

-- Tyler Cowen

#Rooms Quotes #Visitors Quotes #Proust Quotes

“Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.”
“The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.”
“For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.”
“I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.”
“How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.”
“Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.”

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