"If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future."
"Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful…be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency."
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“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
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“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
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Cormac McCarthy (American author)
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Born : July 20, 1933
Died : June 13, 2023 (aged 89)
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American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), a violent frontier tale, was a critical sensation, hailed as his masterpiece. McCarthy achieved popular fame with All the Pretty Horses (1992; film 2000), winner of the National Book Award.
McCarthy’s later works included No Country for Old Men (2005; film 2007), a bloody modern western that opens with a drug deal gone bad. In the postapocalyptic The Road (2006; film 2009), a father and son struggle to survive after a disaster (left unspecified) that has all but destroyed the United States. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize for the critically acclaimed novel.
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Born : July 20, 1933
Died : June 13, 2023 (aged 89)
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American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), a violent frontier tale, was a critical sensation, hailed as his masterpiece. McCarthy achieved popular fame with All the Pretty Horses (1992; film 2000), winner of the National Book Award.
McCarthy’s later works included No Country for Old Men (2005; film 2007), a bloody modern western that opens with a drug deal gone bad. In the postapocalyptic The Road (2006; film 2009), a father and son struggle to survive after a disaster (left unspecified) that has all but destroyed the United States. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize for the critically acclaimed novel.
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
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"Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing i'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily."
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"You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation."
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"They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."
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"Some of the difficulty with quantum mechanics has to reside in the problem of coming to terms with the simple fact that there is no such thing as information in and of itself independent of the apparatus necessary to its perception. There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence. And yet it moved."
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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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Jean Cocteau (French poet and artist)
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Born : July 5, 1889
Died : October 11, 1963
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French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.
Cocteau was the product of the years immediately preceding World War I, years of refined artistic taste that were devoid of political turmoil.
Soon after the war, Max Jacob introduced Cocteau to the future poet and novelist Raymond Radiguet. The 16-year-old Radiguet, who appeared to be a prodigy, advocated an aesthetic of simplicity and of classical clarity, qualities that would become characteristic of Cocteau’s own work. The example of Radiguet counted tremendously for Cocteau; and when Radiguet died in 1923, at age 21, the older man felt bereft of a friendship that had been based upon a constant interchange of ideas, encouragement, and enthusiasms.
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Born : July 5, 1889
Died : October 11, 1963
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French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.
Cocteau was the product of the years immediately preceding World War I, years of refined artistic taste that were devoid of political turmoil.
Soon after the war, Max Jacob introduced Cocteau to the future poet and novelist Raymond Radiguet. The 16-year-old Radiguet, who appeared to be a prodigy, advocated an aesthetic of simplicity and of classical clarity, qualities that would become characteristic of Cocteau’s own work. The example of Radiguet counted tremendously for Cocteau; and when Radiguet died in 1923, at age 21, the older man felt bereft of a friendship that had been based upon a constant interchange of ideas, encouragement, and enthusiasms.
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