"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Influence Quotes #Impressionable Quotes

“It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.”
“Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.”
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”
“By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.”
“Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it.”
“Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.”

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