"To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they"

-- Ben Okri

#Art Quotes #Poison Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I admire people that help other people without asking anything in return, which is something that's really rare these days and hard to find.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com
“You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.”
“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
“In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seatâ€”and some smartass had sold them guns.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2012). “Kill Decision”, p.78, Penguin
“One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.”
“I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.”

Source : "Women in Music 2012". www.elle.com. April 10, 2012.
“I just try to concentrate on concentrating.”

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