"I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about."

-- Robert Helpmann

#Art Quotes #Australia Quotes #Despair Quotes

“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”
“Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].”
“'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.
“There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.”
“Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.”
“The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.”
“In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.”

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