"I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Sake Quotes #Despise Quotes #Clinging Quotes

“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.”
“Fear that makes faith may break faith.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52
“Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.”
“Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.”
“I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.”
“First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.”
“happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.”
“Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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