"Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it."

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Source : "Marc Bolan: 'I am the Cosmic Dancer who dances his way out of the womb' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Keith Altham, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2012.

Marc Bolan

#Time Passing Quotes #Time Passes Quotes

“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.”

Source : "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.
“Utility is the true criterion of beauty.”
“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”
“History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.”

Source : Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”
“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”
“And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally.”
“But hereâ€™s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.”
“I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.”

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