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Ted Leo Musician
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"There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes."

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"This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)"

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"Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita."

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Rebecca Wells Author
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"Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long."

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