"There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster."

-- Leo Rosten

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“When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.”
“One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.”
“I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.”
“I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.”
“The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.”
“The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.214, Springer Science & Business Media
“There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”

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