"Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?"

-- Tony Kushner

#Eye Quotes #Justice Quotes #Gone Quotes

“You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.”
“It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.”

Source : "Andrew Gold, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 59" by Paul Vitello, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.
“Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.”
“Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.”
“As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.”
“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.”
“Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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