"The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs."

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Source : Tony Kushner (1995). “Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer”, p.40, Theatre Communications Group

Tony Kushner

#Spring Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“I think anytime you set out to start doing something, it's always a difficult thing. It's a theory of a blank sheet of paper, for an artist; It's a challenge to put yourself in that position in life, and even in your mind, to put the two together. But you have to, and so that's what you do. I tend to look at it as less than a problem than a process.”
“There are no bad people, only badly loved people.”
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

Source : Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
“I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.”
“When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.”
“The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”
“The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.”

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