"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."

-- Gerry Mulligan

#Writing Quotes #Individualism Quotes #Currents Quotes

“Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.”
“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.”
“I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.”
“I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.”
“I happen to believe that most people -- and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves -- I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is ...”
“More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”

Source : Donald McCaig (2007). “Rhett Butler's People”, p.122, Macmillan
“There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.”
“He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”

Source : "The Knox Brothers". Book by Penelope Fitzgerald, 1977.

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