Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 3
“[…] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”
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George Orwell
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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“Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.”
W. C. Handy
(1873–1958) American blues composer and musician
Music Preservation Society biography http://www.wchandymusicfestival.org/downloads/HandyBiography.pdf
Variant: Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
“You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.”
Sam Harris
(1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
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2000s
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“And I don't want to mean anything to you,
I don't want to tempt you to be true.”
Tom Petty
(1950–2017) American musician
Echo
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