"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."

-- Tommy Smothers

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin
“Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.”
“Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.”
“Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.”
“An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.”

Source : "Obituary". "Nature", Volume 260, April 17, 1965.
“i like to think that im helping them by hating them”
“I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.”

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