"Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace."

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.11, e-artnow

T. E. Lawrence

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“My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.”
“But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.”
“If you truly believe that your dreams will come a reality the possibilities are endless”
“Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Nor does he beg. Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. This is the secret.”
“In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.”
“Repentance is belief in action.”
“I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.”

Source : "Jeff Perry on His 'Scandal' Colleagues: 'We Have the Temperament of an 11-Year-Old Girl Scout Sleepover'". Interview with Andrea Cuttler, www.vanityfair.com. October 3, 2013.
“Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.7, Macmillan

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