Quote by Ernst Fischer
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has becom

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

Category:
Tragedy
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If you cant pay for a thing, dont buy it. If you cant get paid for it, dont sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, dont wait for time. – Ernst Fischer

Category:
Business
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Other Quotes from
Dreams
category

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. – Peter Abrahams

Category:
Dreams

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. Its totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. – J. K. Rowling

Category:
Dreams

I came at age in the 60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time – the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedys campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. – David Talbot

Category:
Dreams

Friends… they cherish one anothers hopes. They are kind to one anothers dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Dreams

Random Quotes

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love. – Yakov Smirnoff

Category:
Freedom

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. – Louis Menand, “Notable Quotables: Is there anything that is not a quotation?” 20

Category:
Quotations

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Future

Theres no such thing as soy milk. Its soy juice. – Lewis Black

Category:
funny