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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, so

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov

Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Nature
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Light
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. – Travis Barker

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Music

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. Its inevitable. – Brian Eno

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Music

My music must reflect whatevers going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is Im becoming. – Shania Twain

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Music

Ive programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And thats the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that. – R. Kelly

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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

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Poetry

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. – E. M. Cioran

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Oppression

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. – Groucho Marx

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Life

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didnt exactly win us any friends. – Fred Frith

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Politics