"When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're certainly there for your day-to-day relationships with people, and so on."

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Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

Stephen R. Bissette

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“You know when transformation happens? Right now. Itâ€™s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.”
“I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.”
“It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.”
“We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we donâ€™t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.”

Source : "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.
“Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.”
“I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.”
“Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.”
“Hope is the leash of submission.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.133, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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