"The new limitations are the human ones of perception."

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Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, December 13, 1996.

Milton Babbitt

#Perception Quotes #Humans Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”

Source : "The World of the Atom". Book by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, January 21, 1966.
“If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.”
“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”
“When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.”
“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”
“As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
“The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr â€” smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.152, 1st World Publishing

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