"There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness."

-- Victor Hugo

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“There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.”
“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.”
“I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.”
“I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”
“A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.”
“We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage
“I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.”

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