"Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it.""

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jessa Crispin

#Stupid Quotes #Sea Quotes #People Quotes

“[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.”
“Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important for the rest of society, but we are people who want to get in touch - really in touch. We want to be thinking together.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both â€” and we can if we try â€” we have failed.”
“Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.”
“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
“I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.”

Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.”
“My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles”

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