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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I saw the Light, saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat Anne Rice
Margaret Atwood quote: "Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results."
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood
Terry Gilliam quote: "It was lights, camera, inaction."
It was lights, camera, inaction. Terry Gilliam
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames. No light; but rather darkness visible. Served only to discover sights of wo? John Milton
George Eliot quote: "Each position has its corresponding duties."
Each position has its corresponding duties. George Eliot
Andrew Marvell quote: "To wander solitary there:/ Two paradises ‘twere in one/ To..."
To wander solitary there:/ Two paradises ‘twere in one/ To live in paradise alone. Andrew Marvell
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing,..."
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. David Bowie
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the..."
A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world. Rainer Maria Rilke
Nathanael West quote: "Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like..."
Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence. Nathanael West
Carrot started to clap. It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse. Terry Prachett
Paul Valery quote: "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are..."
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery
Alfred Hitchcock quote: "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God..."
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Alfred Hitchcock
Mary Ann Mobley quote: "In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."
In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease. Mary Ann Mobley
Hitchhiking is not a sport. It is not an art. It certainly isn't work, for it requires no particular ability not does it produce anything of value. It's an adventure, I suppose, but a shallow ignoble adventure. Tom Robbins