"Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large."

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

Louise Bogan

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“So in my mind I own a lot of house records still”
“You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.”
“Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (2004). “Without Blood”, p.40, Canongate Books
“If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.”
“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.”
“You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.”

Source : "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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