"The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance"

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Source : Anna Funder (2011). “All That I Am”, p.111, Penguin UK

Anna Funder

#Cynicism Quotes #Creation Quotes #Glances Quotes

“Everything is but a dream!”
“I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.”
“Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.”

Source : "Through Music to the Self : How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew" by Peter Michael Hamel, (p. 18), 1979.
“...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.”
“I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.”
“A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.”

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