"Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain."

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Source : Lester Bangs (1988). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung”, Anchor Books

Lester Bangs

#Pain Quotes #Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.”
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.
“When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.”
“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.”
“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.”
“Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.”
“The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.”

Source : Fred Vargas (2014). “This Night's Foul Work”, p.208, Random House
“Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.”

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