"You put your time where your priority is."

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Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Sebastian Faulks

#Priorities Quotes

“Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.”

Source : John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers
“In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.”
“Prosperity has no power over adversity.”
“These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.”
“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.”
“Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?”
“The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.”
“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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