Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.
Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
Paul Murray Kendall
Ambition never comes to an end.
Yoshida Kenko
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Eugenio Montale
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Lisa Marie Presley
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
Martha Reeves
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Computers make me totally blank out.
Dalai Lama
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
Nick Park
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
Winifred Holtby
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
Daniele Vare
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.
Edward Varese
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