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<img src="images/et.jpg" width="500px"> Welcome to Inspiration School! This is a school with free entry. Our overheads are low because nearly everyone who works here is dead. [[Enter]]

<img src="images/ae.jpg" width="500px"> Hi welcome to Inspiration School my name's Albert. What's your name? <<textbox "$name" "">> Enter your name and then click [[here]]

<img src="images/ae.jpg"> Hi $name, nice to meet you. Ok, it's pretty simple really. You choose and department then choose a person you want to speak to and have a chat with them. Have fun and remember... <<print either( "Imagination is important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.", "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosty has its own reason for existing.", "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", "Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." )>> [[Go to music department]] [[Go to art department]] [[Go to philosophy department]] [[Go to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/depm.jpg"> Welcome to the music department! Please choose a musician to speak to [[Charles Mingus]] [[Jimi Hendrix]] [[Ella Fitzgerald]] [[Frank Zappa]] [[Brian Eno]] [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] [[Visit another department->here]]

<img src="images/depa.jpg"> Welcome to the art department! Please choose a artist to speak to: [[Henri Matisse]] [[Pablo Picasso]] [[Vincent Van Gogh]] [[William Blake]] [[Frida Kahlo]] [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] [[Visit another department->here]]

<img src="images/depp.jpg"> Welcome to the philosopy department! Why are you here? [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] [[Laozi]] [[Arthur Koestler]] [[Marcus Aurelius]] [[Plato]] [[Visit another department->here]]

<img src="images/depw.jpg"> Hi there, welcome to the writing department! Who would you like to speak to? [[Charles Bukowski]] [[Anais Nin]] [[David Lynch]] [[Kurt Vonnegut]] [[Mary Shelly]] [[William S Burroughs]] [[Visit another department->here]]

<img src="images/cm.jpg"> Hi, $name. [[Can I have some creative advice please?]] [[How do you write music?]] [[Why make music?]] [[What else do I need to know, Charles?]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/jh.jpg"> Hi, $name. [[How do you have creative ideas?]] [[Why do you play music?]] [[How do you achieve creative freedom?]] [[Jimi, what else can you tell me?]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/ef.jpg"> Hi there, $name. [[Why do you sing?]] [[How can I achieve my dreams?]] [[How do you get your ideas?]] [[What else do I need to know, Ella?]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/z.jpg"> $name, the secret word for tonight is: <<print either("Ms Pinky", "Stupit", "Panties", "Granola", " Hairdo", "Swine Lake", "Waffles", "Smurf", " Smurf", " Lobster", "C'est Oui-Dog Sausage", "Tuna", "Sheep", "Shellfish", "Jellyfish")>> [[Why are you so weird?]] [[How do I make good art?]] [[Tell me something about music.]] [[Can you tell me more, Frank?]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/be.jpg"> Hello $name. Pick a card, any card. [[Pick a card]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/lvb.jpg"> Guten tag, $name. [[How do you compose?]] [[Ludwig, what advice would you give an artist?]] [[Why is music important?]] [[What else do I need to know, Ludwig?]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/cm.jpg"> <<print either("Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.", "Anybody can be weird, that's easy, what's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple awesomely simple, that's creativity.")>> [[Get more advice->Charles Mingus]]

<img src="images/cm.jpg"> <<print either("I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.", "When and if I feel gay and carefree, I write or play that way. When I feel angry I write or play that way — or when I'm happy, or depressed, even.", "Everyone should be themselves. I don't write music, I write Charles Mingus!", "I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time." )>> [[Get more advice->Charles Mingus]]

<img src="images/cm.jpg"> <<print either("My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.", "Bach is how the buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.")>> [[Get more advice->Charles Mingus]]

<img src="images/ef.jpg"> <<print either("The only thing better than singing is more singing.", "When I'm on stage I feel at home.", "What’s the sense of going home and just sitting down and doing nothing?")>> [[Get more advice->Ella Fitzgerald]]

<img src="images/ef.jpg"> <<print either("Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.", "Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.", "It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.")>> [[Get more advice->Ella Fitzgerald]]

<img src="images/ef.jpg"> <<print either("I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.", "People who refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets fall by the wayside… I try to find out the new ideas before the others do.", "Forgive me if I don’t have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.", "My style is no big secret, it's the way I feel.")>> [[Get more advice->Ella Fitzgerald]]

<img src="images/jh.jpg"> <<print either("Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.", "You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.", "All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.", "Imagination is the key. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.")>> [[Get more advice->Jimi Hendrix]]

<img src="images/jh.jpg"> <<print either("Music is a safe kind of high.", "Music is my religion.", "Through music, you hypnotize people and when you get them at their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious.")>> [[Get more advice->Jimi Hendrix]]

<img src="images/jh.jpg"> <<print either("If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.", "When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.", "I try all night to play a pretty note.")>> [[Get more advice->Jimi Hendrix]]

<img src="images/z.jpg"> <<print either("Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.", "I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.", "To me, absurdity is the only reality.")>> [[Get more advice->Frank Zappa]]

<img src="images/z.jpg"> <<print either("A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.", "Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.", "May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face." )>> [[Get more advice->Frank Zappa]]

<img src="images/z.jpg"> <<print either("Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.", "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.", "Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it.", "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." )>> [[Get more advice->Frank Zappa]]

<img src="images/be.jpg"> <<print either("Abandon normal instruments", "Accept advice", "Accretion", "A line has two sides", "Allow an easement", "Are there sections? Consider transitions", "Ask people to work against their better judgement", "Ask your body", "Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group", "Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle", "Be dirty", "Breathe more deeply", "Bridges", "Cascades", "Change instrument roles", "Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency", "Children's voices", "Cluster analysis", "Consider different fading systems", "Consult other sources", "Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element", "Courage!", "Cut a vital connection", "Decorate", "Define an area as safe and use it as an anchor", "Destroy", "Discard an axiom", "Disconnect from desire", "Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them", "Distorting time", "Do nothing for as long as possible", "Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do", "Don't be frightened of cliches", "Don't be frightened to display your talents", "Don't break the silence", "Don't stress one thing more than another", "Do something boring", "Do the washing up", "Do the words need changing?", "Do we need holes?", "Emphasize differences", "Emphasize repetitions", "Emphasize the flaws", "Faced with a choice, do both", "Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation", "Fill every beat with something", "Get your neck massaged", "Ghost echoes", "Give the game away", "Give way to your worst impulse", "Go slowly all the way round the outside", "Honor thy error as a hidden intention", "How would you have done it?", "Humanize something free of error", "Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar", "Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events", "Infinitesimal gradations", "Intentions", "Into the impossible", "Is it finished?", "Is there something missing?", "Is the tuning appropriate?", "Just carry on", "Left channel, right channel, centre channel", "Only one element of each kind", "Organic machinery", "Overtly resist change", "Put in earplugs", "Remember those quiet evenings", "Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics", "Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities", "Repetition is a form of change", "Reverse", "Short circuit", "Shut the door and listen from outside", "Simple subtraction", "Spectrum analysis", "Take a break", "Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance", "Tape your mouth", "The inconsistency principle", "The tape is now the music", "Think of the radio", "Tidy up", "Trust in the you of now", "Turn it upside down", "Twist the spine", "Use an old idea", "Use an unacceptable colour", "Use fewer notes", "Use filters", "Use unqualified people", "Water", "What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate", "What is the reality of the situation?", "What mistakes did you make last time?", "What would your closest friend do?", "What wouldn't you do?", "Work at a different speed", "You are an engineer", "You can only make one dot at a time", "You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas")>> [[Pick another card->Pick a card]] [[Back to music department->Go to music department]]

<img src="images/lvb.jpg"> <<print either("From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again; it disappears; it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again; I seize it; I embrace it with delight.", "Music comes to me more readily than words.", "Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.", "I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.")>> [[Get more advice->Ludwig Van Beethoven]]

<img src="images/lvb.jpg"> <<print either("Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise humans to the divine.", "To play without passion is inexcusable!", "The true artist is not proud" )>> [[Get more advice->Ludwig Van Beethoven]]

<img src="images/lvb.jpg"> <<print either("Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.", "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.", "Only art and science can raise humans to the level of gods." )>> [[Get more advice->Ludwig Van Beethoven]]

<img src="images/m.jpg"> Salut, $name. [[How can I be more creative?]] [[Henri, tell me something useful.->Give me a artistic tip]] [[How can I learn to see the world like you?]] [[Henri, what else do I need to know?]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/pp.jpg"> Hola, $name. [[How do I stay inspired and motivated?]] [[Pablo, how can I be a better artist?]] [[How do I seek real meaning?->How do I seek the real meaning of life?]] [[Pablo, tell me more.]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/vvg.jpg"> Hallo, $name. [[What is the value of dreams?]] [[Vincent, why do you create art?]] [[Can you tell me how to produce good art?]] [[Vincent, is there anything else I should know?]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/wb.jpg"> Hello, $name. [[What is imagination?]] [[William, why do you create art?]] [[How can I become a wiser person?]] [[William, what else can you tell me?]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/fk.jpg"> Hola, $name. [[Frida, why do you paint?]] [[How do you define yourself?]] [[Tell me more ->Could you please give me some advice?]] [[Is there anything else I should know?]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/ldv.jpg"> Ciao, $name. [[How did you achieve so much?]] [[What advice would you give an artist?]] [[What is the value of art?]] [[Leonardo, what else should I know?]] [[Back to art department->Go to art department]]

<img src="images/m.jpg"> <<print either("Creativity takes courage.", "Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.", "The essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.", "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover." )>> [[Get more advice->Henri Matisse]]

<img src="images/m.jpg"> <<print either("To arrive is to be in prison.", "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illumination of the fog that surrounds.", "An artist must possess nature.", "When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.", "Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.", "A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful." )>> [[Get more advice->Henri Matisse]]

<img src="images/m.jpg"> <<print either("There are always flowers for those who want to see them.", "I am made of all that I have seen.", "Recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it." )>> [[Get more advice->Henri Matisse]]

<img src="images/pp.jpg"> <<print either("Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone", "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.", "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." )>> [[Get more advice->Pablo Picasso]]

<img src="images/pp.jpg"> <<print either("Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.", "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up." )>> [[Get more advice->Pablo Picasso]]

<img src="images/pp.jpg"> <<print either("The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.", "Everything you can imagine is real.", "I do not seek. I find.", "One must act in painting as in life, directly.", "Art is the lie that enables us to realise the truth." )>> [[Get more advice->Pablo Picasso]]

<img src="images/vvg.jpg"> <<print either("I dream my painting and I paint my dream.", "I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.", "The sunflower is mine, in a way." )>> [[Get more advice->Vincent Van Gogh]]

<img src="images/vvg.jpg"> <<print either("Art is to console those who are broken by life.", "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'", "A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.", "The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.", "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" )>> [[Get more advice->Vincent Van Gogh]]

<img src="images/vvg.jpg"> <<print either("If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.", "The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.", "So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.", "Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.", "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." )>> [[Get more advice->Vincent Van Gogh]]

<img src="images/wb.jpg"> <<print either("The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.", "Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow." )>> [[Get more advice->William Blake]]

<img src="images/wb.jpg"> <<print either("I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.", "He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.", "How can a bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing?" )>> [[Get more advice->William Blake]]

<img src="images/wb.jpg"> <<print either("If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.", "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.", "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.", "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.", "Energy is eternal delight." )>> [[Get more advice->William Blake]]

<img src="images/fk.jpg"> <<print either("I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.", "I paint flowers so they will not die.", "I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.", "To paint is the most terrific thing there is, but to do well is very difficult.", "Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly.", "I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint." )>> [[Get more advice->Frida Kahlo]]

<img src="images/fk.jpg"> <<print either("I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.", "I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.", "I want to be inside your darkest everything" )>> [[Get more advice->Frida Kahlo]]

<img src="images/fk.jpg"> <<print either("Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.", "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.", "Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence", "Can verbs be made up? I'll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly." )>> [[Get more advice->Frida Kahlo]]

<img src="images/ldv.jpg"> <<print either("It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.", "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.", "Learning never exhausts the mind.", "Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." )>> [[Get more advice->Leonardo Da Vinci]]

<img src="images/ldv.jpg"> <<print either("Art is never finished, only abandoned.", "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.", "Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.", "Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up." )>> [[Get more advice->Leonardo Da Vinci]]

<img src="images/ldv.jpg"> <<print either("Art is the queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.", "The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." )>> [[Get more advice->Leonardo Da Vinci]]

<img src="images/fn.jpg"> Hallo, $name. [[Why do you like dancing?]] [[Friedrich, how can I be more creative?]] [[Why is individual creativity important?]] [[Tell me more, Friedrich.]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/l.jpg"> Nǐ hǎo, $name. [[How do I stop comparing myself to others?]] [[How do I motivate myself?]] [[Can you tell me more please?]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/ak.jpg"> Hello, $name. [[What is creativity?]] [[How do I make good decisions?]] [[How can I be a good artist?]] [[What else can you tell me, Arthur?]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> Ave, $name! [[Why is discipline important?]] [[How should we behave to others?]] [[How can I feel inspired?]] [[What is the value of stoicism?]] [[Please tell me more, Marcus.]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/p.jpg"> Chaîre, $name. [[Why is art important for life?]] [[Why is art sometimes difficult to produce?]] [[Would you mind telling me more?]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/fn.jpg"> <<print either("Without music, life would be a mistake.", "Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.", "I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.", "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.", "The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.", )>> [[Get more advice->Friedrich Nietzsche]]

<img src="images/fn.jpg"> <<print either("You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.", "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.", "I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.", "We have art in order not to die of the truth." )>> [[Get more advice->Friedrich Nietzsche]]

<img src="images/fn.jpg"> <<print either("You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.", "All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.", "For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." )>> [[Get more advice->Friedrich Nietzsche]]

<img src="images/as.jpg"> Guten tag, $name. [[Why is talent important?]] [[What are your thoughts about art?]] [[What are your thoughts about life?]] [[What else should I know, Arthur?]] [[Back to philosophy department->Go to philosophy department]]

<img src="images/as.jpg"> <<print either("Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.", "Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a person of talent tries to 'use' it." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Schopenhauer]]

<img src="images/as.jpg"> <<print either("Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.", "Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Schopenhauer]]

<img src="images/as.jpg"> <<print either("Life is a constant process of dying.", "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.", "Each day is a little life.", "That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Schopenhauer]]

<img src="images/l.jpg"> <<print either("Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.", "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.", "When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." )>> [[Get more advice->Laozi]]

<img src="images/l.jpg"> <<print either("Act without expectation.", "Stop thinking, and end your problems.", "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.", "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.", "The Way to do is to be." )>> [[Get more advice->Laozi]]

<img src="images/ak.jpg"> <<print either("Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.", "Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.", "True creativity often starts where language ends.", "The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.", "Every creative act - in science, art, or religion - involves a regression to a more primitive level." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Koestler]]

<img src="images/ak.jpg"> <<print either("Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.", "Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.", "One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Koestler]]

<img src="images/ak.jpg"> <<print either( "The principle mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers.", "The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.", "Art, like religion, is a school of self-transcendence; it expands individual awareness into cosmic awareness, as science teaches us to reduce any particular puzzle to the great universal puzzle.", "The artist rules their subjects by turning them into accomplices. The humorist thrives on deformity the artist deforms the world to recreate it in their own image.", "No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others." )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Koestler]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> <<print either("You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.", "The things you think about determine the quality of your mind." )>> [[Get more advice->Marcus Aurelius]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> <<print either("Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.", "Do not be ashamed of help." )>> [[Get more advice->Marcus Aurelius]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> <<print either("Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.", "Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.", "Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.", "Confine yourself to the present.", "Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.", "Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." )>> [[Get more advice->Marcus Aurelius]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> <<print either("Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.", "The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.", "Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it." )>> [[Get more advice->Marcus Aurelius]]

<img src="images/p.jpg"> <<print either("The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods.", "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.", "Life must be lived as play.", "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." )>> [[Get more advice->Plato]]

<img src="images/p.jpg"> <<print either("Necessity is the mother of invention.", "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.", "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.", "Nothing beautiful without struggle.", "All is flux, nothing stays still." )>> [[Get more advice->Plato]]

<img src="images/cb.jpg"> Hi, $name, have a drink. [[Why is it good to be alone?]] [[What's some advice for artists?]] [[What else could you tell me, Charles?]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/an.jpg"> Hi, $name. [[Can you give me some advice as an artist?]] [[Tell me about life]] [[Tell me a secret]] [[Anais, what else can you tell me?]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/dl.jpg"> Hi, $name. [[Tell me some tips for having ideas]] [[David, what are your thoughts about life?]] [[Anything else?]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/kv.jpg"> Hi, $name. [[How do you have new and original ideas?]] [[What is the purpose of life?]] [[Kurt, can you tell me more?]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/ms.jpg"> Hello, $name. [[How do you find peace?]] [[How can I cope with sadness?]] [[Mary, please tell me more.]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/wsb.jpg"> <<print either( "Hi $name how are you today?", "Today hi $name are you how?", "Today how $name are hi you?", "Today you how are $name hi?", "$name hi how are you today?", "Today $name you are hi how?", "Are $name you how today? Hi.", "Today? $name how you hi are.", "Are how hi today $name you.", "Hi today how you are $name.", "Hi $name are how you today?", "$name you hi today? Are how.", "Today how are $name? Hi you.", "$name today you hi how are?", "Today are $name hi you how?" )>> [[What are your thoughts on creativity?]] [[What words of advice would you give people?]] [[What else can you tell me, William?]] [[Back to writing department->Go to literature department]]

<img src="images/cb.jpg"> <<print either("The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.", "If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.", "People empty me. I have to get away to refill.", "I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself." )>> [[Get more advice->Charles Bukowski]]

<img src="images/cb.jpg"> <<print either("Find what you love doing and let it kill you.", "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.", "To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.", "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.", "It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.", "Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn." )>> [[Get more advice->Charles Bukowski]]

<img src="images/an.jpg"> <<print either("The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.", "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.", "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." )>> [[Get more advice->Anais Nin]]

<img src="images/an.jpg"> <<print either("Dreams are necessary to life.", "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.", "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." )>> [[Get more advice->Anais Nin]]

<img src="images/an.jpg"> <<print either("Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.", "The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.", "Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are." )>> [[Get more advice->Anais Nin]]

<img src="images/dl.jpg"> <<print either( "Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.", "The ideas dictate everything, you have to true to that or you are dead.", "Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.", "Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.", "Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all." )>> [[Get more advice->David Lynch]]

<img src="images/dl.jpg"> <<print either("I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.", "I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.", "I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.", "Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humour in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.", "Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new." )>> [[Get more advice->David Lynch]]

<img src="images/kv.jpg"> <<print either( "We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.", "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre." )>> [[Get more advice->Kurt Vonnegut]]

<img src="images/kv.jpg"> <<print either( "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.", "To be is to do - Socrates. To do is to be - Sartre. Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra", "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." )>> [[Get more advice->Kurt Vonnegut]]

<img src="images/ms.jpg"> <<print either( "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose.", "Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.", "My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.", "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries." )>> [[Get more advice->Mary Shelly]]

<img src="images/ms.jpg"> <<print either( "Live, and be happy, and make others so.", "What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?", "Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own." )>> [[Get more advice->Mary Shelly]]

<img src="images/wsb.jpg"> <<print either( "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.", "When you stop growing you start dying.", "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted", "Open your mind and let the pictures out.", "Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact." )>> [[Get more advice->William S Burroughs]]

<img src="images/wsb.jpg"> <<print either( "There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defence or reserve.", "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.", "The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol themselves, train themselves as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for themselves as possible.", "Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.", "If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future." )>> [[Get more advice->William S Burroughs]]

<img src="images/cm.jpg"> <<print either( "Don’t take me for no avant-garde, ready-born doctor.", "Music is a language of the emotions.", "Let my children have music!, Let them hear live music.")>> [[Get more advice->Charles Mingus]]

<img src="images/ef.jpg"> <<print either("Music is the universal language… it brings people closer together.", "Our love is as deep as the sea, Our love is as great as a love can be, And we can weather the great unknown, If we’re alone together.", "I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!", "Some like the high road, I like the low road. Free from the care and strife." )>> [[Get more advice->Ella Fitzgerald]]

<img src="images/jh.jpg"> <<print either("The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again.", "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.", "When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.", "In order to change the world you have to get your head together first.")>> [[Get more advice->Jimi Hendrix]]

<img src="images/z.jpg"> <<print either("If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.", "You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.", "People will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.", "There is more stupidity than hydrogenin the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." )>> [[Get more advice->Frank Zappa]]

<img src="images/lvb.jpg"> <<print either("Thousands of people cultivate music; but few have the revelation of this great art.", "A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.", "The mark of a really admirable person is steadfastness in the face of trouble.", "Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?" )>> [[Get more advice->Ludwig Van Beethoven]]

<img src="images/m.jpg"> <<print either("I wouldn't mind turing into a vermilion goldfish.", "Work cures everything.", "I'm growing old, I delight in the past.", "Exactitude is not truth.", "With colour one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft." )>> [[Get more advice->Henri Matisse]]

<img src="images/pp.jpg"> <<print either("Taste is the enemy of creativeness.", "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.", "Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?", "Love is the greatest refreshment in life.", "We don't grow older, we grow riper." )>> [[Get more advice->Pablo Picasso]]

<img src="images/vvg.jpg"> <<print either("There is something inside me, what can it be?", "I wish they would only take me as I am.", "The best way to know life is to love many things." )>> [[Get more advice->Vincent Van Gogh]]

<img src="images/wb.jpg"> <<print either("No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings", "Exuberance is beauty.", "If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.", "Travellers repose and dream among my leaves.", "Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.", "The eye altering, alters all." )>> [[Get more advice->William Blake]]

<img src="images/fk.jpg"> <<print either("I love you more than my own skin.", "I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.", "I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you." )>> [[Get more advice->Frida Kahlo]]

<img src="images/ldv.jpg"> <<print either("I love you more than my own skin.", "I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.", "I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you." )>> [[Get more advice->Leonardo Da Vinci]]

<img src="images/fn.jpg"> <<print either("A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.", "We have art in order not to die of the truth.", "In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.", "There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.", "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.", "Art raises its head where creeds relax.", "All truth is simple...is that not doubly a lie?", "There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." )>> [[Get more advice->Friedrich Nietzsche]]

<img src="images/as.jpg"> <<print either("A person who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that they do not attach much importance to their own thoughts.", "Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.", "Music is the melody whose text is the world.", "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.", "One should use common words to say uncommon things" )>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Schopenhauer]]

<img src="images/l.jpg"> <<print either("I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.", "Success is as dangerous as failure.", "Hope is as hollow as fear.", "To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go", "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." )>> [[Get more advice->Laozi]]

<img src="images/ak.jpg"> <<print either("The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.", "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.", "Honour is decency without vanity.", "In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.", "Brain-washing starts in the cradle.", "The jester is brother to the sage.", "Space ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.", "Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.")>> [[Get more advice->Arthur Koestler]]

<img src="images/ma.jpg"> <<print either("What is no good for the hive is no good for the bee.", "Waste no time arguing what a good person should be, be one.", "Leave another's wrongdoing where it lies.", "Accept modestly; surrender gracefully.", "You may break your heart but people will still go on as before.", "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.", "Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.", "To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless never refrain from doing so." )>> [[Get more advice->Marcus Aurelius]]

<img src="images/p.jpg"> <<print either("The greatest wealth is to live content with a little.", "Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.", "Courage is a kind of salvation.", "Philosophy is the highest music.", "Philosophy begins in wonder.", "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.")>> [[Get more advice->Plato]]

<img src="images/cb.jpg"> <<print either("The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.", "Never get out of bed before noon", "Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.", "Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.", "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our education system.", "A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces life that won't let go.", "Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.", "I can feel blood, murder and madness swirling everywhere. It's a fine night filing this glass again and again with thick red wine." )>> [[Get more advice->Charles Bukowski]]

<img src="images/an.jpg"> <<print either("We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "Truth is something that can't be told in a few words.", "I must be a mermaid, $name. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.", "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.", "I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.")>> [[Get more advice->Anais Nin]]

<img src="images/dl.jpg"> <<print either( "Float with me in the world of ether.", "My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.", "I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon." )>> [[Get more advice->David Lynch]]

<img src="images/kv.jpg"> <<print either( "I have tried to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism and there has been very little gratitude for this.", "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.", "If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC", "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.", "Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.", "I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.", "Science is magic that works.", "A sane person to an insane society must appear insane." )>> [[Get more advice->Kurt Vonnegut]]

<img src="images/ms.jpg"> <<print either( "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.", "I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.", "The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil." )>> [[Get more advice->Mary Shelly]]

<img src="images/wsb.jpg"> <<print either( "Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalising.", "Love? What is it? The most natural painkiller that there is.", "I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.", "How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.", "The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers." )>> [[Get more advice->William S Burroughs]]

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