quotes about Amir

“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.275, A&C Black

“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.”

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”

“I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.”

“When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found”

“How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'”

“My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.”

Source : Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

“Treat everybody the same way you want to be treated”

“The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.”

“Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.”