"I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else."

-- Robert De Niro

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of oneâ€™s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”

Source : R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”
“Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.”
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
“I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.”
“I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.”

Source : "Art of the 20th Century". Book by Ingo F. Walther, Part 1, p. 49, 2000.
“The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.”
“We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.”

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.156, Penguin
“Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.”

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