"I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s."

-- Robert Wyatt

#New York Quotes #Bebop Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 21, 2005.
“Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now?”

Source : "Song: Testify (Album:The Battle of Los Angeles)". 2000.
“The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.”

Source : George E. Vaillant (2012). “Triumphs of Experience”, p.136, Harvard University Press
“I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.”
“Heterosexuality is not a thing.”
“History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?”
“Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.”
“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

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