"Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along"

-- E. M. Forster

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“To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.”
“I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.”
“I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.”

Source : M. Leighton (2013). “Down to You”, p.25, Penguin
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites donâ€™t do that, and itâ€™s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but itâ€™s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”
“The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”
“If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.”
“I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.”

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