"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
“Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.”
“To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).”
“The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.”
“Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.”
“Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by the first wave of Sub Pop bands. Is there anyone on that label that you look up to or borrow from?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.”
“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror . . . Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Source : "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.

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