"Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses."

-- Rosemary Mahoney

#Sight Quotes #Perception Quotes #Slick Quotes

“Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
“But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.”
“My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.”
“I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.”
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”
“I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.”

Source : "Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead vs. J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr". Interview with Norman Reedus, www.undertheradarmag.com. May 28, 2014.
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”

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