"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”
“I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.”
“Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.”
“That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.”
“I am enthusiastic over humanityâ€™s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterdayâ€™s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.”
“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.293, Penguin
“I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.”
“People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?”

Source : David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.217, Anchor

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