January 27, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791):

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”

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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898):

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836 – 1895):

“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.”

Samuel Gompers (1850 – 1924):

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”

Mordecai Richler (1931 – 2001):

“All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates.”

Patton Oswalt (1969 - ):

“If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.”

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“I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.”

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“Comedy and terror and autobiography and comics and literature-they're all the same thing. To me.”

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“In Dubliners, remember the long paragraph about the cleaning woman, and she’s sitting on the bottom of the steps, and the whole paragraph ends with one sentence, three words: “She was tired.” All of the kind of literary tricksterism that goes in the rest of the paragraph before, it’s almost like he compares it to the sentence, “She was tired,” which in a way is saying that it this is much more important than anything he was saying with all of my learning and education. This is a real human thing happening right now, and this affects the world. Things have gone wrong or things have gone right because somebody was tired, and that’s crucial, and that needs to be paid attention to.”