quotes about Candide

“In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

“Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.”

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“My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

“Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.”

“No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.”

“The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

“Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.”

“I didnt quit movies. They quit me.”

Source : Jane Powell (2014). “The Girl Next Door...And How She Grew”, p.81, Untreed Reads

“I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.”