"To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid."

-- Georges Bataille

#Fear Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.”
“There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God didn't do anything; He was one and wished to be many. He wished - and there were many. If He had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient-there would still be the wordless state. So to be in a wordless state is very supreme.”
“It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.”
“Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.93, Seven Stories Press
“I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.”
“Itâ€™s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesnâ€™t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: â€˜My cup runneth over.â€™ What comes out of the cup is for yâ€™all. Whatâ€™s in the cup is mine. But Iâ€™ve got to keep my cup full.”
“I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.”

Source : "Chadwick Boseman: The '42'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 12, 2013.

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