"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Rights Quotes #Hands Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
“If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I was a child, even though I grew up in an era of highly processed food, the grocery store sold local field peas, lima beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. While there is a deep sense of place in the South - and the foods of this place - I don't want to present a pastoral vision of the contemporary South. The majority of Southerners cannot access fresh, local, affordable food.”
“I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.”
“And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.”
“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”

Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books
“I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.”
“Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.”

Source : Edmund Vance Cooke, “Kisses”
“If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.”

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