"The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm."

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Teju Cole

#Evil Quotes #World Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.”

Source : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony
“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”
“I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.”
“In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!”
“Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.”
“The faster we go, the slower we need to be.”
“In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.”
“I have had to learn about saying no.”

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