"Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any."

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Source : Michael Tolkin (1995). “The Player ; The Rapture ; The New Age: Three Screenplays”, p.42, Grove Press

Michael Tolkin

#Thinking Quotes #Pasadena Quotes

“History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.”
“There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.”

Source : 1967 Lecture, College of France.
“Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.”
“I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.”
“If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.”
“The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.”
“The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.”

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