"I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by â€œAre you asleep yet?â€ and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life."

-- Joe Brainard

#Light Quotes #Long Quotes #Silence Quotes

“There is no health without mental health.”

Source : "Mental Health and Civil Rights: The Kennedy Legacy". Interview with Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2016.
“And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.”
“It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.”
“Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.”
“Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.”
“Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italyâ€™s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italyâ€™s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.”
“Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.”
“Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.”

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