"You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden."

-- Allen Ginsberg

#Past Quotes #Paris Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.”
“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.”
“Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.”
“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”

Source : Seth (Spirit), Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts (1972). “Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul”, p.302, New World Library
“I've never had a five-year plan or a three-year plan, or whatever, ... We had an idea philosophically of what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.”
“Any profession of faithâ€¦entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”
“One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.”
“Nature knows best, and she says, roar!”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Tales and novels: in 9 volumes”, p.265

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