"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Art Quotes #Important Quotes #Crime Quotes

“To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.”
“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
“In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.”
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
“Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.”
“Patience is not a virtue!”
“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.”
“If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!”

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