"Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott, Lillian Vallee (1989). “Diary”, p.7, Northwestern University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

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“In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.”
“Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.”
“I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.”

Source : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
“Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.”

Source : "Fictional character: Frankie". "Dream for an Insomniac", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.”
“Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”
“I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.”
“Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.”

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