"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Humanity Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer”
“It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”
“Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.”
“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid heâ€™d tell me Ivy had it.”
“You can't motivate a student you don't know.”
“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
“I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.”
“The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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