"We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival."

-- Willard Gaylin

#People Quotes #Survival Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”
“I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.”
“Whatever, I'm getting cheese fries.”
“Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.57, Paradise Publishing
“When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.”
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.”
“The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.”
“I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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