Stephen Fry: I’ve known Hugh for over 30 years and there hasn’t been a day where he hasn’t played the piano — he hasn’t practiced — he hasn’t got better and better
I have faith, oh…I have faith
I have faith, oh…I have faith
In those who put up with me”- The Maccabees
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
— ― Socrates
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his moonlit scenes and landscapes.
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To come home from another home is a weird feeling, because people expect you to be the person you were when you left, and that’s impossible. You expect things to be exactly the same as when you left, and that’s impossible. Maybe it’s impossible to even truly come home once you’ve gone away because of those changes. Coming home is strange, because now that place is just a tiny bit less of a home.
— Alex Brueckner, How To Come Home
I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go, gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on it. I don’t want to lose passion in the things I like because of the worry of exams. I want to fuelled by snippets of knowledge I gain from people and be inquisitive. School has stolen my passion for the things I’m interested in and I hate it for that.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Bolas para a gente ter que aturar isto! Ó meninos: estudem, divirtam-se e calem-se. Estudem ciências, se estudam ciências; estudem artes, se estudam artes; estudem letras, se estudam letras. Divirtam-se com mulheres, se gostam de mulheres; divirtam-se de outra maneira, se preferem outra. Tudo está certo, porque não passa do corpo de quem se diverte.
Mas quanto ao resto, calem-se. Calem-se o mais silenciosamente possível.
Porque há só duas maneiras de se ter razão. Uma é calar-se, que é a que convém aos novos. A outra é contradizer-se, mas só alguém de mais idade a pode cometer.
Tudo mais é uma grande maçada para quem está presente por acaso. E a sociedade em que nascemos é o lugar onde mais por acaso estamos presentes.
Europa , 1923.
— Álvaro de Campos
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It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
— Hugh Laurie
