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NotTommy

NotTommy

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#21
#21
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Both from Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, a really great book and a favourite of mine that disccuses the issues that were prevalent in South Africa in the 1940's. Obviously the quotes aren't limited to the situation there and then and can be applied to other circumstances so I thought they were memorable enough to place here.
 
BleakAsh

BleakAsh

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#26
#26
MonochromeYoru said:
It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Or something like that. People should shut the fuck up more often.
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Abu al-Darda’, Allah be pleased with him, said: “Learn silence just as you learn speech. Silence is a dear wisdom. Be more keen to listen than you are to speak, and do not speak about a matter that is of no concern to you. Laugh not but it be due to amazement, and walk not but with a purpose.”
 
garciajulieen

garciajulieen

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#27
#27
HAPPY ARE those ages when the starry sky is the map of all possible paths — ages whose paths are illuminated by the light of the stars. Everything in such ages is new and yet familiar, full of adventure and yet their own. The world is wide and yet it is like a home, for the fire that burns in the soul is of the same essential nature as the stars; the world and the self, the light and the fire, are sharply distinct, yet they never become permanent strangers to one another, for fire is the soul of all light and all fire clothes itself in light. - Georg Lukacs
 
Etzel Andergast

Etzel Andergast

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#40
#40
Midnight Delight said:
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
Beatles' "aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll: it replaced syncopated african rhythm with linear western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.
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Actually Bach is considered the greatest classical composer
 
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