"What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it."

-- John Gimlette

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Cuba Quotes #Bars Quotes

“I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.”

Source : "Surfing into the Sunset". Interview with Sarah Douglas, www.vanityfair.com. October 24, 2012.
“Where the hell do you put the bayonet?”
“I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.”
“A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.”
“The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.”
“Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)”
“As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.”

Source : Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com
“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”

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