"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.”
“I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.”
“It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.”

Source : Niels Henrik Abel, Philip Horowitz (2007). “Abel on analysis: papers of N.H. Abel on Abelian and elliptic functions and the theory of series”
“I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge
“[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.”
“The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.”
“The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.”
“Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.”

Source : "Prayer for This House". Poem by Louis Untermeyer, www.poemhunter.com.

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