"Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade."

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Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

Josephine Winslow Johnson

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“Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.”
“We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.
“Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.”
“It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.”
“I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.”
“I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'”
“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”

Source : David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.38, Hachette UK
“Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.”

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