"I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured."

-- Mauricio Kagel

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Position Of Power Quotes

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
“What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.”

Source : Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books
“I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.”
“I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”
“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
“I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.”
“Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.889, Ballantine Books
“On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.”

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