"I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive."

-- Eugene Ionesco

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“A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.”
“Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.”
“The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.”
“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times itâ€™s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau
“You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.”
“He who cannot obey cannot command.”
“Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.”
“I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com

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