"He not busy being born is busy dying."

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Source : "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

Bob Dylan

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“Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.”

Source : "10 Reasons You Have to Quit Your Job in 2014" By James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.
“It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.”
“They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.”

Source : 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.
“Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.”
“Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.”
“What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”

Source : Peter Shaffer (1981). “Amadeus”
“As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find. I never thought I would pursue mathematics until my last year in high school. I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.”
“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.”

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