Quotes
Authors
Alan Watts

"But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites."

-- Alan Watts

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“I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.”
“I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.”
“You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.”
“If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.”
“I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.”
“Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.”

Source : "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.
“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”

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