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“Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”
Source : 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.
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“She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.”
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“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature”
Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”
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“I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
Source : Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.381, Penguin
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“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.157, Macmillan
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“There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.”
Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd
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“I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.”
