The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Irvin D. Yalom
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller

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  2. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though...

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  4. Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

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