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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ”
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ”
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ”
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ”
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. ”
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win. ”
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. ”
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. ”
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps. ”
With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos. ”