Quote by Elvis Costello
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. - Elvis Costell

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt

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