"As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it."

-- Stephen Daldry

“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2014). “Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

Source : In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1
“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books
“I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.”
“A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.546, Oxford University Press
“No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.”
“The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.”
“Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.”

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