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“No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.”
Source : Frank Norris (1899). “Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship”
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“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?”
Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
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“A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”
Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.129, Random House
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“I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.”
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“That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”
Source : "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
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“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
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“When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.”
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“Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.”
