Kunishige Kamamotos Birthday Quotes & Sayings

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. — Elia Kazan

Prasanta, who was later going to be sorry to see Purba go, experienced the dazed detachment someone feels when events they ignited go far beyond a reasonable trajectory they had imagined. — Neel Mukherjee

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open. — Rajneesh

By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient works of art would become thin, anemic. I sucked the juice out of what I loved until I found myself in a desert, sucking rocks for water. — Jonathan Lethem

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. — Liam Gallagher

He picked up the paper and read the article; it was just one of many he had read lately that portrayed the poor in an awful light. The badge had now become the symbol of the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, and the most vulnerable. Badger had noticed that the media, just like that newspaper, swirled around anybody who they deemed too lazy or too stupid to work, and it seemed, people believed what they read. — Paul Howsley

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. — Will Rogers

In the spectacle - the visual reflection of the ruling economic order - goals are nothing, development is everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself. — Guy Debord

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget. — Dale Carnegie