"An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Oasis Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Desert Quotes

“If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.”
“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”
“The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.”
“Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.”
“When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?”
“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”
“If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.”
“The word itself has another color. Itâ€™s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasnâ€™t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellowâ€™s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasnâ€™t violetâ€™s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green.”

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