#everything

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#around #carrying #everything #get #going

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#except #indifference #pathology

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#art #better #change #everything #history

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

#best #everything #feel #fictions #happens

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#actually #age #air #days #everything

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led

I really think everything happens for a reason. ↗

— Lily Collins

#happens #i #really #reason #think