"Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist."

-- David Byrne

#Character Quotes #Unique Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.”
“The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.”

Source : David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.154, Encounter Books
“Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'”
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”
“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”
“I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.”
“Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.”

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