"What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous."

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Deception Quotes #Needs Quotes #Irreverence Quotes

“Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.”
“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”
“Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.”
“My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.”
“We live in a niche world.”
“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
“There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.”
“The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?”

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