"Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other. They believed in the rational exploration of the universe, and they also believed that there was a hidden spiritual truth. Baroque thinkers were able to live the two at the same time. In any case, for me, it's necessary to live that way also."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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“Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.”
“...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!”
“Make your life a story worth telling,”

Source : "Adam Braun: How He Started Pencils of Promise". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. March 18, 2014.
“For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”

Source : "The Crimson Petal and the White". Book by Michel Faber, 2002.
“I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.”
“You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.”
“We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.”

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