"The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure."

-- Helen Keller

“Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.”
“The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.”
“There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'”
“Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, 'The eye of the beholder', 1990.
“I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.”
“A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.”
“The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.”
“Usually we praise only to be praised.”

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