"It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!"

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Source : "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 21, 1964.

Murray Leinster

#Artist Quotes #Peanuts Quotes #Illegal Quotes

“Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."”
“Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.”
“I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.”
“Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.”
“I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.”
“She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.”
“Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness”
“You should make great things, not promising great things.”

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