"Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure."

-- Susan Sontag

#Patient Quotes #Exploring Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”
“But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture”
“Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?”

Source : Song: Turn Back the Hands of Time, Album: Weekend Warrior, 2003
“When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.”
“Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.”
“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
“I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.”

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