"Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified."

-- Jerome Kern

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #World Quotes

“The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time. The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.”

Source : "The Theatre of the Absurd". Book by Martin Esslin, 1961.
“If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.”
“You need to realize that the galaxy is organized and structured and has been for billions of years, that the life that is out there is loving, that it is working together, that they see us as children and they're doing everything they can to help us.”

Source : Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com
“If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.”
“Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.”

Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.142, Cornell University Press
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

Source : Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press
“I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?”

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