"When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist."

-- Jimmy Page

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“I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.”
“Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
“When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.”
“Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.”
“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
“The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'”
“I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.”
“Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.216, Macmillan

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