"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."

-- Ezra Pound

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“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
“Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.”
“Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142
“If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.”

Source : ABC News, November 1990.
“I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?”

Source : Christine Warren (2010). “One Bite With A Stranger”, p.277, Macmillan
“By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.”
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”

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