#r

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#feel #future #good #happens #i

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#anything #chinese #did #foreign #free

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. ↗

— John Guare

#comedy #core #humiliation #tragedy

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. ↗

— John Guare

#believe #center #city #however #i

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#i #internet #look #must #never

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#black #mistrust #people #racism #white

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. ↗

— John Guare

#ballet #because #celebration #city #every

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. ↗

— John Guare

#alive #ballet #because #city #dancer