"I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Political Quotes #Bankers Quotes #Experts Quotes

“Slow motion gets you there faster.”
“I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.”
“I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (2012). “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli International Publications
“If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.”
“Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.”

Source : Harry Mathews (1991). “Immeasurable distances: the collected essays”, Lapis Pr
“Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.”
“History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.”

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