"There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

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“Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.”
“Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries”
“Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.”

Source : "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.
“After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.”
“The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
“The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.”
“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them â€˜unfinishedâ€™ the way Chopinâ€™s Ã‰tudes are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”

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