"It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people."

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Paul Quarrington

#Art Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“We''re all misfits here,â€ he says, almost proudly. â€œThat's why I started this squat, after all. Â For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Â Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. Â That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. Â From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. Â From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.”
“If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”
“The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.”
“Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.70, Courier Corporation
“A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.”
“Raven: "Don't you notice that?" Alexander: "Notice what?" Raven: "The girls?" Alexander: "What girls?" Raven: "Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar when all along I should have been concerned about bringing you." Alexander: "I don't know what you are talking about." Raven: "The girls are drooling all over you!" Alexander: "Well, there is only one girl I want to be with and she's right here.”
“Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.”

Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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