"It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."

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Source : Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

Tom Stoppard

“Hang 'em first, try 'em later.”
“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about loveâ€”you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
“Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.”
“What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?”
“The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.”
“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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