"Let your mind alone, and see what happens."

-- Virgil Thomson

“You can parody almost anything.”

Source : "Tuning In to the Absurd". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.
“But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.”
“In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.”
“I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.”
“What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
“Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.”

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