"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Art Quotes #Epic Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.”
“You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.”
“Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment.”
“Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.”
“You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.”
“The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.”
“Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.”
“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”

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