"Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable."

-- William Ernest Henley

#Men Quotes #Done Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”

Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.9, Workman Publishing
“All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.”

Source : Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.”
“The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it”
“There is beautiful in the grotesque.”
“Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.”
“I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.”

Source : Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.49, University of Michigan Press
“I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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