"When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Country Quotes #Hippie Quotes #Vegetables Quotes

“Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I donâ€™t knowâ€¦ Itâ€™s like some kind of euphoria, that love canâ€™t bring to you.”
“We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2009.
“We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You want to make music that reflects your ideals, but considering the isolating process of recording and the time and energy requirements of touring, there aren't a lot of opportunities to express those ideals anywhere but the music itself.”
“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.10, tredition
“And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean â€˜inner selvesâ€™, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if youâ€™re searching for happiness; if youâ€™re searching for tranquility; if youâ€™re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.”
“War rages on the teeming earth; The hot and sanguinary fight Begins with each new creature's birth: A dreadful war where might is right; Where still the strongest slay and win, Where weakness is the only sin.”

Source : Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.9, The Floating Press

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