"It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused."

-- Richard Machowicz

“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”
“Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.”
“I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.”
“Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.421, Ballantine Books
“The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.”
“The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.”
“The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.”
“The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, Routledge/Thoemms Press

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