"I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume."

-- Italo Calvino

#May Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Form Quotes

“No other man will have you”
“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.”
“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”
“I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.”
“Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy”
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
“Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.”
“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”

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