"Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

Source : Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.747, Macmillan
“There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”
“A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”
“In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.”
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1979). “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics”, p.9, Beacon Press
“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?â€ cried the boy. â€œOf course,â€ said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. â€œThat is the way of the world.”
“The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.51, Lulu.com
“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”

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