"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane..."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Shadow Quotes #Azure Quotes

“You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.”

Source : Song: You'll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart
“I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.”
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
“You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1980). “Bittersweet”, Putnam Publishing Group
“For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.”
“I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.”
“I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.”
“The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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