"[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . ."

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Source : Algernon Sidney (1750). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.363

Algernon Sidney

#People Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”

Source : Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.”
“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”
“We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.”
“I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.”
“I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.”
“Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.”
“I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.”

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