"Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke."

-- Paul Fussell

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“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”
“I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.”
“Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.”
“Pardon is the virtue of victory.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.84
“We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.”
“Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.”
“Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.”
“Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.”

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