"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."

-- D. Wayne Calloway

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“I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”
“We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I donâ€™t think thatâ€™s right.”
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”

Source : John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.”
“Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.”

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