"All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning"

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Source : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster

Dmitri Volkogonov

#October Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Bloody Quotes

“Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.”
“He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the colour of the sky before it turns black and he will see heaven, and the pictures of all those other girls floating inside his head will blow away like the clouds of the cigarette and he'll see only the girl inside himself and the world will stop.”
“A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.”

Source : Source: time.com
“Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.”

Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com
“No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.”
“Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.”
“No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.”
“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”

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