"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

-- Robert Frost

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“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Source : Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”
“I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.”
“The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Source : Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”
“Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.”
“Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.”
“The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.”
“Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.”

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