"I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture."

-- Benny Carter

#Curiosity Quotes #Way Quotes #World Quotes

“I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".”

Source : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
“Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.”
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
“As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.”
“Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.”
“The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.”
“The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.”
“Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.”

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