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Arthur Conan Doyle

"Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.”

Source : "Tears of a clown". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2007.
“If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.”
“Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.”
“The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see God, to receive the greatest gifts of His light, to contemplate the divine splendor in primordial power, to be filled with the gifts that bring wisdom and to share these generously with subordinates as a part of the beneficent outpouring of His wisdom.”
“Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.”
“I was doing big roles and, yeah, everything was going great. In the midst of all that, I guess I had already become common in the sense that I became formed into what the world wanted me to be. My desires and my goals were (identified) by the world - the things that would make me (successful) in the sight of the world and would give me a status that I thought was security.”
“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.”
“Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.”

Source : Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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