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- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. The Dalai Lama p162
- The best things in life aren't things. Ann Landers p164 (her take on the best things in life are free)
- Lake Wobegon: where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. p168
- The chief object of education is not to learn things, but to unlearn things. GK Chesterton p.171 (JAF: use of spelling with spell checker)
- There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak p.31
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain p.32
- In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. David Ben Gurion p109
- It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor
- Play so that you may be serious. Anacharsis, quoted by Herodotus, 6thC BC p91
- To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus, in Moral Sayings p98
- A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. Juan Ramon Jimenez p45
- People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground Marcel Proust p 47
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. Sir George Saville p.171 (JAF: downloan the info out of your head)
- Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain p171
- First I dream my painting, then I paint my dream. Vincent VanGogh p133
- To study music we must learn the rules. To create music, we must forget them. Nadia Boulanger p136
- The ever-alert, the consciously wakeful- how many fine things they fail to see. Norman Douglas.p43
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer p45 THIS ONE VERY IMPORTANT
- Man is condemned to be free. Jean Paul Sartre p.48
- The child is the father of the man. William Wordsworth p.85
- If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong. p164
- Unless we lose ourselves, there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller
- Katherine Mansfield. If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral. p. 7 GAME: write your obituary
- p.11 Benjamin Disraeli: I have seen more than i remember, and remember more than I have seen. WWW.chiasmus.com
- Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean Paul Sartre p36
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson p.43
- The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. WC Fields. p27
- Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher. p,27
- It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney p.13
- I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. Jules Feiffer p27
- Nonsense is the end result of all sense. George Bataille p174
- Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Don Herald p177
- Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes p128
- Paul Gaugin: I shut my eyes in order to see p133
- My children didn't have my advantages: I was born into abject povery. Kirk Douglas p197
- I don't see much of Alfred anymore since he got so interested in sex. Mrs. Kinsey p225
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift p181
- Civilization is a limitless multipication of unnecessary necessaries. Mark Twain p181
- Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein p157
- For fast acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin p159