“He told me that he was working on a book he would call Conversations with Quotations. “If you ever come to my room you’ll see. I have just an enormous number of cards. All my life I used to write down anything that I wanted to remember. So I have got a thousand or maybe two thousand quotations. And every time, after that quotation, I am going to talk to that man.””
– Tom Bethell, Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher
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“Every artist gets asked the question,
“Where do you get your ideas?”
The honest artist answers,
“I steal them.”
How does an artist look at the world?
First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing.
That’s about all there is to it.
When you look at the world this way, you stop worrying about what’s “good” and what’s “bad”—there’s only stuff worth stealing, and stuff that’s not worth stealing.
Everything is up for grabs. If you don’t find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now.”
– Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist
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I stole the name of my blog from Eric Hoffer.
I love his idea.
He can no longer use the title.
An idea that cannot be used is a waste.
I hope I honour him with my own humble effort.
I am carrying on the conversation with Mr Hoffer.
Thankyou sir.
Conversations With Quotations 