"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Depressing Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.”
“Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.”
“I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.”
“I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.”
“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.”
“Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and done and done. The role of a true artist is to present their own unique vision, and so it has always made sense to me that works of art should be radical.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.”

Source : Irving Layton (1989). “Selected Poems, 1945-89: A Wild Peculiar Joy”
“I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.”

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