"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

-- Charlie Parker

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“Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it'll elude you. It's important to really love your work as a writer, to read loads to the point where you can recognise blindfolded, hearing them read, the writers of yesterday and today. It's important to write every day, for hours. To have faith in your imagination and let it wander.”
“It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.”
“The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.”
“Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence”
“This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!”
“I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press
“To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.”

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