#eva

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#his #i #i love #love #novel

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#benefit #certain #composition #cool #did

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critic #critical #evaluation #good #maintaining

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it. ↗

— Michael Chang

#away #change #comes #down #i

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#communications #decade #during #evacuation #first

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#did #earth #fable #heaven #hell

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. ↗

— Gil Kane

#came #enough #into #most #out

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom