"No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people."

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Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY

Meridel Le Sueur

#Art Quotes #People Quotes

“I am thinking,â€™ he remarked quietly, â€™whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.”
“[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs ***** out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.”

Source : Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.74, Faber & Faber
“A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy whoâ€™s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like weâ€™re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. Heâ€™s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God heâ€™s not a genius.”
“Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.”
“I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.”
“Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.”
“Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.269, Penguin
“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”

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