"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

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Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

George Jean Nathan

#Art Quotes #Sex Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.”
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.”
“Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
“I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.”
“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.”
“The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.”
“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
“Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your eyes are yours alone. Show others what only you can see.”

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