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“The first draft of anything is shit” 
Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit”

Ernest Hemingway


Glenn O’Brien on “Social Climbing”
“We often hear the platitude of cynics, “It’s not what you know but who you know.” I get it, but it’s a bit facile. It’s what you know, who you know, and what you know about who you know and what who you know knows, too. Not to mention knowing what else and who else you ought to know. Is that clear?”
Read More at GQ:
 http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/201104/glenn-obrien-guide-social-climbing#ixzz1LAupDghM

Glenn O’Brien on “Social Climbing”

We often hear the platitude of cynics, “It’s not what you know but who you know.” I get it, but it’s a bit facile. It’s what you know, who you know, and what you know about who you know and what who you know knows, too. Not to mention knowing what else and who else you ought to know. Is that clear?”


Read More at GQ:

 http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/201104/glenn-obrien-guide-social-climbing#ixzz1LAupDghM

New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect, but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writing on the wall. That shared landscape gets inside all of us and in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t.

Jay-Z on Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decoded (2010)

“I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” - Groucho Marx

“I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” - Groucho Marx

“Once you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein

“Once you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein

CURIOSITY ILLUMINATES THE CORRECT PATH TO ANYTHING IN LIFE. IF YOU ARE NOT CURIOUS, THAT’S WHEN YOUR BRAIN IS STARTING TO DIE..
—PHARRELL WILLIAMS