"In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love"

-- Diane di Prima

#Busy Quotes #Being Cool Quotes #Words Love Quotes

“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans
“Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”
“The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.”
“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.”
“We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.”
“The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.”
“Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.”

Source : Song: 40 Licks

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