"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."

-- Stanley Crouch

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“Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.”

Source : "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.
“In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.”
“Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.”
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
“It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.”
“If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.”
“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”
“Right is right and wrong is wrong.”

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