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“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
Man and Superman • George Bernard Shaw“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”
Discourses • Epictetus“. "They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.””
Gooseberries • Anton Chekhov“To tell my story I have to start far in the past. If I could, I’d have to go back much farther yet, to the very earliest years of my childhood and even beyond them to my distant origins.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond