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“Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.”
Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.”
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“There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.”
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“Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.”
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“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”
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“The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.”
Source : Arthur Symons (1998). “Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands”, p.162, Northwestern University Press
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“When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.”
Source : "A passage from India", www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.
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“The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for my version of "Rock 'N' Roll High School," and I always thought that was so weird, because it's not the Ramones playing. It's the producer, who happened to just be a musician and could play everything.”