"It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall."

-- Louis Kronenberger

#New York Quotes #Eye Quotes #Years Quotes

“For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.
“The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.”
“Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.”
“I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.”
“I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote ... I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.”
“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”
“. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.”
“Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.”

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