"When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country that we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Country Quotes #Moon Quotes #People Quotes

“I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.”
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press
“I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.”
“For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.”
“We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.”
“We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.”
“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.”

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