"We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove."

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Source : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.

Emile Chartier

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“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.”
“Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.”

Source : "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.
“I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.”
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
“To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.”
“that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery”

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