"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

-- Idries Shah

#Daughter Quotes #Independence Quotes #Conceit Quotes

“There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.”
“I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.”

Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”
“If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.”
“Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.”
“Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.”
“The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.”
“The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.”
“There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.”

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