#si

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#artistic-vision #artists #death #literature #robert-mccrum

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. ↗

— Henry James

#anger

I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and ”on one memorable occasionâ ”a singing rutabaga. It was never my ambition to utilize my extensive dramatic training by playing a musical vegetable. However, as my agent is so fond of pointing out, there are more actors in New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation: Beggars can't be choosers. ↗

— Laura Resnick

#music

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#devil #possession #rage #anger

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#bail #clinton #consistently #efforts #european

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #cowardice #differentiation #flag #guilt

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical. ↗

— Jeff Mangum

#song-lyrics #music

Cayse you left a jagged hole. And I can' stand it any more. ↗

— The Wanted

#music

When the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass. ↗

— Ok Go

#jr #music-lyrics #of-the-blue-colour-of-the-sky #ok-go #this-too-shall-pass