"The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding."

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Source : Neal Ascherson (1988). “Games with Shadows”, Hudson Annex

Neal Ascherson

#Fashion Quotes #Way Quotes #Mood Quotes

“The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.”
“What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.”
“When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.”
“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.”
“Forget the ones that forget you.”
“I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.”
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
“I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.”

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