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Marshall McLuhan quote: "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the..."

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

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And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night on July 27?" What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays. Norton Juster
Mark Twain quote: "Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe."
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. Mark Twain
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. Michael Chabon
What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but in the head? Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted. David Lodge
There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance? Jeanette Winterson
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire -- since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any -- and he handed it there and then as a gift to man. Plato
John Owen quote: "Leanness of body and soul may go together."
Leanness of body and soul may go together. John Owen
Michael Kors quote: "I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my..."
I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie. Michael Kors
Stephenie Meyer quote: "There really is something irresistible about a lost cause."
There really is something irresistible about a lost cause. Stephenie Meyer
The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere. Jean-Paul Sartre
This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left. Chuck Palahniuk
Keeping big secrets, particularly secrets about things of one's own doing, is a tough proposition for even very bright people. Kurt Vonnegut
It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it. Peter S. Beagle
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. Emily Dickinson