"No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Freedom Quotes #Jealous Quotes #People Quotes

“A short horse is soone currid.”
“I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.”
“One tends to write beyond what's needed”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.”
“The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.”
“Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.”
“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”

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