"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

-- Franz Schubert

#Flames Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.”
“For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...”
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribblerâ€™s heart, kill your darlings.”
“At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.”
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”
“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
“Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.”

Source : "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.
“I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!”

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