"I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly."

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Source : "The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel". Telegraph Review, January 25, 2014.

Erik Satie

#Rooms Quotes #Evolve Quotes #Small Things Quotes

“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-â€œ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?â€œ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!”
“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.”
“My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.”
“Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.”
“You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.”
“All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.”
“In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.”

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