"Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'"

-- Salman Rushdie

#Night Quotes #World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Source : A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
“My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!”
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'”
“We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.”

Source : "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.
“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.”
“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”

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