Quotes
Authors
Christian Picciolini
"It's a cause for great concern because a lot of people have said and done repulsive things in terms of racism and misogyny and marginalizing people - it's really come to fruition, something I've spent the last 21 years of my life trying to expose and educate people on. This really is kind of a dream scenario for white nationalists at the moment." --
Source : Source: chicagoist.com
Christian Picciolini
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“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.”
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter”
“Those who forever seek the will of God are overrun by those who do it.”
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”
Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.
“Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?”
“writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.”
Source : Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press
“With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.”
“Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.”
