"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."

-- Hedy Lamarr

#Art Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Despise Quotes

“At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.”
“An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?”
“The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him â€” it was so matter-of-fact,”
“I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.”
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
“The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.”
“The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.”
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

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