"I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years."

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Frederick Busch

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Done Quotes

“I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.”
“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.275, A&C Black
“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”
“All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?”

Source : Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag
“I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me”
“The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.”
“The whole world has become a crowded theater. You could say something here in New York and have it be heard in Afghanistan and potentially trigger riots and it may be something that to you was innocent or was in jest or was satirical and it's taken out of context. I mean, a joke, a tweet or a blog post can make it halfway around the world before the context gets its boots on.”
“Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.”

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