"I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time."

-- David Salle

“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.”
“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”
“With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.”
“It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.120, Vintage
“I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay”
“I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.”
“Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.”

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