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Laurence Boldt

"As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder."

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

Laurence Boldt

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“Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.”
“The abuse of cabmen in a block.”
“The steak ain't right without the A-1 So I stay dipped in sauce and they come”

Source : Song: She Neva Seen, 2004
“No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.”
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”
“I want a military funeral when I dieÂ—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingÂ—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”
“The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also donâ€™t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour itâ€™s like thereâ€™s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or youâ€™d be crushed under the weight of it.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan
“I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.”

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