"Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher."

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Source : Alex Comfort, John Bayliss (1969). “New Road ...: New Directions in European Art and Letters”

Alex Comfort

#Freedom Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.”
“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”
“Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways”

Source : Jane Green (2006). “Swapping Lives”, p.10, Penguin
“I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.”
“The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.”

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