"This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it."

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Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

Alfred Bester

#Adventure Quotes #Dying Quotes #Age Quotes

“Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a very live way of writing electronic music, very improvisational. They set up a lot of gear and do live takes. I'm concerned with having a specific kind of sound. There's not one second that I haven't put thought into. I put almost as much time into my live shows as I do into writing music, but they're two completely different processes. Some people think the way I perform live is how I write songs, which isn't true at all.”

Source : "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.”
“There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.”
“Ho Chi Minh rarely wrote about Sun Tzu, but when he did mention the ancient Chinese military strategist, he was always laudatory, and he sometimes cited his ideas as a model for the Vietnamese revolutionary movement to follow.”
“The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.”
“It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.”
“The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.”
“Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.”

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