“It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.” IfsWantCountryGuyTurnsPresidentInterestingOfficeFormerMotivatedSpeakersMotivational Speakers Author:David Letterman
“The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.” WritingTwoRealityRunningTurnsChoicesEnergyFictionMysteryProduceTiredFormerConquerReality Of LifeComplexityIntimidatingTwo Choices Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir
“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” IfsBelievePoliticalTurnsI BelieveSoundEffortTeachDemocracyHonestPoliticianCampaignsFormerAssumptionLatterUnthinkableBurglarsPolitical CampaignGood Politicians Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.” WorldArtTwoTurnsIndividualVisionEnvironmentArt IsMirrorsInstrumentsPrisonActiveFormerLatterCopiesAestheticPassivePsychicsAestheticsObjectivityRedeemedPrismsSpatialPersonal Vision Author:Jorge Luis Borges