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#1

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up

tags: art, art-and-life, artists, imagination, inspiration, soul

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#2

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#3

“Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference”
― Nicholas Mhlongo

tags: africa, johannesburg, south-africa

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#4

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

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#5

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
― James Russell Lowell

tags: books, reading

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#6

“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
― Heinrich Heine

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#7

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: books, censorship

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#8

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: discovery, travel

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#9

“Though I drive in the valley of the shadow of death I fear no hijackers, but another fuel increase.”
― Nicholas Mhlongo

tags: gauteng, johannesburg, south-africa

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#10

“Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation
from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought
when you decided embark on it in the first place. True
adventure does not follow well-trodden paths. Absence
of certainty is its essence. People, like you and I, who
choose to shun the mundane must not only expect, but
also enjoy and profit from surprises.”
― Adam Yamey, ALIWAL

tags: historical-fiction, migration, south-africa

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#11

“Jenny held
her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.”
― Adam Yamey

tags: aliwal, jewish, matzos, passover-seder, pesach, south-africa

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#12

“People regard art too highly, and history not enough”
― John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage

tags: art, common-sense, history

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#13

“Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.”
― Enver Hoxha

tags: albania, hoxha, political, slogan

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#14

“We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.”
― Josip Broz Tito

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#15

“Anon from the castle walls
The crescent banner falls,
And the crowd beholds instead,
Like a portent in the sky,
Iskander's banner fly,
The Black Eagle with double head;
And a shout ascends on high,
For men's souls are tired of the Turks,
And their wicked ways and works,
That have made of Ak-Hissar
A city of the plague;
And the loud, exultant cry
That echoes wide and far
Is: "Long live Scanderbeg!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: albania, freedom, liberation, sacrifice

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#16

“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: ayn-rand, evil, greed, objectivism

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#17

“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

tags: cynicism, politics, realism

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#18

“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

tags: morality, usa

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#19

“The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

tags: chat-rooms, dinosaurs, fossil-fuels

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#20

“To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round”
― Gore Vidal, 1876

tags: life, writing

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#21

“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War of the Grandmothers; that after 50 years of peace, it was the grandmothers who reminded their offspring to hate each other, the grandmothers who reminded them of past atrocities, of indignities long gone. Never forget! shouted the grandmothers. So their grandchildren remembered, and their grandchildren died.”
― Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy

tags: balkan, grandmother, war

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#22

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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