"But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures."

-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious Quotes #Art Quotes #Honor Quotes

“Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub.”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
“The finest woman that ever walked the streets.”
“Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.”
“Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.”
“Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n----a want problems, my trigger's on auto.”
“But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.”
“Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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