"America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be."

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A. A. Gill

#Civilization Quotes #America Quotes #Profound Quotes

“It's not tragic to die doing something you love.”
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”
“If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.”
“Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.”
“This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”
“Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.”
“TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.”
“Without fear there cannot be courage.”

Source : "Dragons Get a Modern Image Makeover". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 27, 2007.

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