"Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft"

-- John Coltrane

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Monk Quotes

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”
“I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.”
“I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.”
“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.”
“Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.”
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
“I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.”
“Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business.”

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