"Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology."

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Source : Simon Sebag Montefiore (2009). “Young Stalin”, p.25, Vintage

Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Childhood Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Marxist Quotes

“My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.”
“Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.152, Pan Macmillan
“Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.”
“In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.”
“You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 06, 2013
“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”
“From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”
“Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.”

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