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Jack Kerouac quote: "Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use..."

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

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Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile being, fixed, cast in a mold once and for all. This is what makes the traditional psychological novel so different from what I did or thought I was doing. The human being as I conceive him in the novel is a being caught up in the drama of human salvation, even if he doesn’t know it. Francois Mauriac
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. John Bruton
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here! Dr. Seuss
Tomorrow we will only give thema leaf of the tree of our love, a leafwhich will fall on the earthlike if it had been made by our lipslike a kiss which fallsfrom our invincible heightsto show the fire and the tendernessof a true love. Pablo Neruda
Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. Ralph Bakshi
Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede. Samuel Beckett
Alison Moyet quote: "When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made."
When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made. Alison Moyet
Aldous Huxley quote: "Kebahagiaan adalah produk sampingan yang kita peroleh dalam..."
Kebahagiaan adalah produk sampingan yang kita peroleh dalam proses mengerjakan sesuatu yang lain. Aldous Huxley
Guy Kawasaki quote: "Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version..."
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. Guy Kawasaki
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick II
I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line. Laura Lippman
Gerrit Smith quote: "We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by..."
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. Gerrit Smith
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon quote: "The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us..."
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise! Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am...self-centered and careerist and not true to standards and values that transcend my own petty interests...but then I countenance the fact here at least here I am worrying about it; so then I feel better about myself...but this soon becomes a vehicle for feeling superior to imagined Others...I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am--so where does that put me. David Foster Wallace
Mickey Rooney quote: "A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last..."
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. Mickey Rooney