"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins."

-- Isaac Hayes

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“You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.51, Penguin
“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
“The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.”
“A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!”
“I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.”
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”

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