"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."

-- Edward Abbey

#Gun Quotes #Hands Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!”
“That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.70, Pan Macmillan
“But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.”
“Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature”
“Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.”
“I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.”
“Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.”

Source : David Budbill (2012). “Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse”, p.43, Copper Canyon Press

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