"I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world."

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Source : Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

Ben Shahn

#Elements Quotes #World Quotes #Dull Quotes

“He's the kind of player that is worth the price of admission.”
“But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.”
“Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.”

Source : FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Oct 07, 2015
“we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been”
“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
“They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.”
“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”
“I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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