"I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision."

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Source : "Liu Xiaobo: China's Poet-Dissident" by Suzanne Nossel, www.politico.com. December 28, 2017.

Liu Xiaobo

#Frowning Quotes #Doorways Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button.”
“A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.”
“I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.”
“I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.”
“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”

Source : "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.”
“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”
“New York is in my DNA.”

Source : "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview With Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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