"Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway."

-- Evan Parker

#People Quotes #Scene Quotes #Genes Quotes

“In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.”
“Keep your working power at its maximum.”

Source : William Rounseville Alger (1881). “The School of Life”
“I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.”

Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.5, Haymarket Books
“All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”

Source : "The Magyar Struggle". Neue Rheinische Zeitung, No. 194, www.marxistsfr.org. January 13, 1849.
“To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]”
“The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.”
“I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.”
“Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Elysium Commission”, p.141, Macmillan

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