"Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history."

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Sarah Vowell

#Depressing Quotes #Art Quotes #Years Quotes

“When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.”
“Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.”
“At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.”

Source : "Life Itself!". Book by Elaine Dundy, 2001.
“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”
“He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.”
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
“Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,â€ he once wrote. â€œPretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.”
“Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384

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