"My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes."

-- Derek Jeter

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“Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.”
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”

Source : "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.
“A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: â€œWhom do you write for?â€ The question is, of course, a silly one, but I can give it a silly answer. Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover I donâ€™t want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each otherâ€™s existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every author.”
“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
“Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs”
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing”, p.409, Hachette UK
“Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.”

Source : "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.
“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

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