"The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere."

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Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press

Stephen Vizinczey

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“To cease to love -- that is defeat.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
“And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.”
“Deep within each one of us lies a garden.”

Source : Julie Moir Messervy (2007). “The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning”, p.11, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
“And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.”
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability.Â In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with.Â There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue.Â The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin.Â And people die.”
“No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.”
“In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.”

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