"It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction."

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Source : Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey

Michael Moorcock

#Lying Quotes #Profound Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Source : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.
“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.”
“I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'”
“There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ***** going right back to her!”

Source : "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.”
“I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.”
“Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.”
“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.”

Source : "Mark Rothko: A Biography". Book by James E. B. Breslin, p. 170, 1990.

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