"The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact."

-- Malcolm Muggeridge

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“Your conduct matters a great deal. Whatâ€™s in your mind matters even more.”
“There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.”

Source : "Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.
“The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.”
“We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.”
“Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.”
“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”
“The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.”
“The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.”

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