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“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part Two
Source: No Longer Human

“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Variant: I don't care what you think unless it is about me

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Variant: For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

Variant: I must have flowers, always and always.

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher

“Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Source: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The First Notebook
No Longer Human

“There are many variables intertwined in every problem and components of all the variable involved have to be carefully studied. Forming solutions by studying and synthesizing the relationship among key variables seems to be very much in need. The ability to identify a meaning from observable and obtained data is the core of human characteristics in such changing society. Hence, inductive thinking has to be instilled in every learner for a productive citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.

“What I do when I write is that I'll do a raggedy, rough version just to hear the chorus, just to see how much I like the chorus. If it works for me that way when it's raggedy, then I'll know it will just work… Listen to that, that's at home. Janet, Randy, Me… Janet and I are going "Whoo, Whoo… Whoo, Whoo…" I do that same process with every song. It's the melody, it's the melody that's most important, If the melody can sell me, then I'll go to the next step. The idea is to transcribe from what's in your mentality onto tape. If you take a song like "Billie Jean," Where the bass line is the prominent, dominant piece, the protagonist of the song, the main driving riff that you hear, getting the character of the riff to be just the way you want it to be, that takes a lot of time. Listen, you're hearing four basses on there, doing four different personalities, and that's what gives it character, but it takes a lot of work.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)

“If you cut a branch out of my forests, I'd cut your head off!”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

Source: Aşıkpaşaoğlu History

“No one is perfect in this imperfect world.”

Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed

Congo, My Country

“Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

http://rocknrollworldmagazine.com/2015/08/82915-rock-history/

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/ <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Context: Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.