"Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot."

-- Bruce Chatwin

#Real Quotes #Home Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Interesting people always have a past.”
“Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.”
“You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.”
“There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.”
“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”
“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. â€œYouâ€™re my sacred ones,â€ I told the books. â€œNo one but me still cares about you. But Iâ€™m going to keep you with me forever. And one day Iâ€™ll make you important again.â€ I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.”
“The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.”
“Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator. I could hear the note and sit there and think. I could be arranging as I was going in real time, which was fascinating.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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