"If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?"

-- Leon Trotsky

#Mirrors Quotes #Shaving Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.”
“Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.”

Source : "Let's not Pretend Ali was Gandhi". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 04, 2002.
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.”
“There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.”
“It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was arguing a lot with my record label during that whole time, so maybe they all affected each other. This record, Mondo Amore, came out of a time that was really heartbreaking and confusing, and that's why I switched the sound up a lot, to make it sound a little bit grittier and more raw.”
“It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.”
“I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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