"Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Avant Garde Quotes

“Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.”
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
“Itâ€™s been me all along,â€ said September slowly. â€œMe who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtnâ€™t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. Iâ€™ve got to see it through, donâ€™t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because sheâ€™s missing the part of her thatâ€™s me. Weâ€™ve got to come together again. And he canâ€™t do a thing about that.”
“It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.”
“It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.”
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”

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“Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.”

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