"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

-- Tom Stoppard

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“It's Crazy when I watch myself on TV. I'm always thinking like 'oh no how could I have done that' and I go crazy like seeing these little things that I do that probably other people would never even notice and stuff like that.”
“I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.”

Source : "Kylie Minogue 'exclusive'". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, blogs.smh.com.au. February 21, 2005.
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”
“I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.”
“Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.”
“Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!”

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