"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."

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Horace

“If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.”
“So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.”
“I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.”
“What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.”
“I was always sure the Bundesliga was the right choice for me. My first season was solid, if unspectacular, so maybe I would have preferred it not to be so hard at the beginning, but I've worked very hard to get to this point and want to get even better now.”
“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.”

Source : "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.
“Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.”
“I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually hoped that I might be an artist, and I was lucky again to grow up with people who delighted in making things: my father wove baskets and painted furniture and carved wood figures; my mother quilted and embroidered and sewed.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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