"You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!"

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Vitality Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Spending Quotes

“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”

Source : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers
“I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.”
“Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.”
“I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.”
“The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated”
“I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.”
“These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.”

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