"It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing"

-- Benny Carter

#Thinking Quotes #Littles Quotes #Made Quotes

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.154, 1st World Publishing
“They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.”
“I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'”
“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy â€” just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”
“An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.”
“Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.”

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