"Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

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“These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.”
“It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.”
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”
“My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.”
“You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?”
“Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”
“Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.”
“There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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