"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is"

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Giovanni Ribisi

#Path Quotes #Vocation Quotes #You Choose Quotes

“To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.”
“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isâ€”an intense form of thought.”
“There is always a plan B.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Kaboom". "Spy Corps", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.”
“We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”
“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”
“Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
“I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.”

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