"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."

-- Raymond Queneau

#Epic Quotes #Singing Quotes #Identity Quotes

“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.”
“The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just werenâ€™t paying attention.”
“Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.”
“You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.”
“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”
“Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.”

Source : "Election 2014: Obama’s Failure to Communicate" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 5, 2014.
“The house of magic has many rooms.”
“I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?”

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