"Donâ€™t romanticise your â€˜vocationâ€™. You can either write good sentences or you canâ€™t. There is no â€˜writerâ€™s lifestyleâ€™. All that matters is what you leave on the page."

-- Zadie Smith

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“The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.”
“Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.”

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
“Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.”
“It is not peace we seek but meaning.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.267, Faber & Faber
“Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”
“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.”
“You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.”

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