"The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship."

-- Dweezil Zappa

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“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”
“I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.”
“If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.”
“Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?”
“A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.”

Source : Marianne Boruch (2017). “The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays Toward Poetry”, p.54, University of Michigan Press
“Fear is the enemy of hope.”
“Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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