"In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery."

-- Margaret George

#Two Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”
“I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and that decided me to stop. What bothered me most was not playing guitar at all anymore. I felt I had no more contact with the instrument. It was just a piece of wood to me. I even thought music had definitely left me. After fourteen albums, there may be an overload phase, a sort of lassitude.”
“A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.”
“The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act IV, 1835.
“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”
“The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.”
“I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.”
“As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.”

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