"I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky."

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John D'Agata

#Forever Quotes #Mainstream Quotes #Funky Quotes

“Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.”
“I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?”
“The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
“I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.”
“If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.”

Source : James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics
“I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.”
“Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.”

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