Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didnt know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did. – Ben Affleck
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings…. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes full. – Rumi