"Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella."

-- Barbara Johnson

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“Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.”
“Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.”
“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”
“We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.”
“Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.”
“Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.123, Penguin
“I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.”
“Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.69, Penguin

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