"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."

-- Jonathan Lethem

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“I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.”
“The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.”
“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.”
“To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.”
“Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.”
“There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 14, 2015
“I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.”

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