"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."

-- Desiderius Erasmus

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“Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.”
“I will howl for you, human boy (...). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I'll celebrate as wolf.”
“I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.”

Source : "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
“If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.”
“Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.”
“A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.”
“The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.”

Source : "Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 137, 1980.
“We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.”

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