"I cried for madder music and for stronger wine..."

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Source : Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.185, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Ernest Dowson

#Wine Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“You donâ€™t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.”
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
“Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.”
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.”

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