"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected."

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Source : Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

Chuck Jones

#Ordinary Quotes #Needs Quotes #Esoteric Quotes

“After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.”
“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.”

Source : "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.
“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.”
“We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and â€“ equally important â€“ to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.55, Vintage
“Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.”
“It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.”
“I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.”
“People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.”

Source : Martin Mayer (1963). “Where, When, and why: Social Studies in American Schools”, New York : Harper & Row

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