"Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state."

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Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

Phillip Lopate

#Running Quotes #Party Quotes #Night Quotes

“I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.”

Source : Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.293, Macmillan
“Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.”
“I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.”
“The 'C' students run the world.”
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force”
“In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?”
“I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.”

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