"Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Hurt Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.”
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”
“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.”
“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.”
“There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.”
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”

Source : 'Daisy' (1913)
“Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”

Source : 'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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