"I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act."

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Anne Waldman

#Political Quotes #Language Quotes #Efficacy Quotes

“You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.”
“I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.”
“The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.”
“God dwells wherever man lets Him in.”
“By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.”
“... when I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he was "the player" in town ... I still remember him saying to me 'Is there any reason you're not using your little finger?'...”
“Accessories are like vitamins to fashion”
“Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.”

Source : M. M. Kaye (2015). “Shadow of the Moon”, p.163, St. Martin's Griffin

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