"I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary."

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Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

David Longstreth

#Simple Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes #Esoteric Quotes

“The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”

Source : "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.
“I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.”

Source : "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld, p.160, 1956.
“The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.”
“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.”
“Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.”
“I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.”
“There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.”

Source : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
“Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.”

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