"The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the earth was about to become a paradise. That idea cannot hold water after the war."

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Christine Jennings

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“It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
“I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.”
“The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.”
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
“Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.”
“My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.”
“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”
“I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.”

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