"The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle."

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Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black

Storm Jameson

#Life Is Quotes #Cruelty Quotes #Gentle Quotes

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”
“When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.”

Source : Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press
“When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.”
“Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy”
“I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there in the franchise right now gets pushed aside, I think the whole thing could be re-tooled. I think it's the type of franchise that has years in it, and has lots of legs.”
“Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.”
“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

Source : Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

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