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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. Kurt Vonnegut
These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave. Roberto Bolano
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. Washington Irving
Schuyler Colfax quote: "These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea."
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. Schuyler Colfax
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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. Anselm Kiefer
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also..."
You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the handthat, ever so gently? kills. Friedrich Nietzsche
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. Gary Allan
There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It’s fairyland thought Richard. Neil Gaiman
[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread. Anita Brookner
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? Rush Limbaugh
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks. Chris Bell
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. Carol Kane
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone. Carly Rae Jepsen
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Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. Alfred Douglas
Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no escape. The weather will not change. Henry Miller