"Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute."

-- Malcolm Mclaren

#Cute Quotes #People Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.”
“I love everything special or unique. Sometimes I love girly clothes, sometimes I love strong boy looks. You never know what is the next look of Ming.”
“If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.”
“If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.”
“Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.”
“A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.”

Source : John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75
“Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.”
“We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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