"You do not get more with honey than with vinegar."

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Source : "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.

Larry Kramer

#Honey Quotes #Vinegar Quotes

“In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didnt have any fear. I thought, This is easy. This is what Ive been waiting for. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”

Source : In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354
“All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens”
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”
“The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.”
“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
“Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.”

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