"A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!"

-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes

“To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.”
“I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.”

Source : "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.
“Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.”
“The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.”
“People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.”
“I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you Never want to see shirtless”
“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.”
“When we are old and these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream, And out of all our burning there remains No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream, This be our solace: that it was not said When we were young and warm and in our prime, Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead, Sleeping away the unreturning time.”

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