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"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
If you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
If you have no enemies, you're dead.
If you want to keep something precious, you have to lock it up and throw away the key.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same...