... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. -- Harold Bloom
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. -- Steve Lacy
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“We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.”
“The world is ashamed of being virtuous.”
“It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.”
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
“an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death”
“I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.”
Source : "Interview with Paul Bremer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. September 24, 2003.
“My dad was my hero, my best friend.”
“Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate and stare at the wall. Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.”
“I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.”
“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”