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Play And Disturb The Comfortable
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
— Banksy
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Smile as only the real shy can smile. It wasn’t the easy laugh of the optimist nor the quick sharp smile of the stubborn and evil. It had nothing to do with the balanced smile, used on purpose, of a courtier or politician. It was the strange, unusual smile, rising from the deep, dark abyss, deeper than a well, deep like a deep mine, that is inside them.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the power to change the way you think and look at the world.
— coverbandcentral.com
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When you realize it’s a dream you can afford to play. The same thing happens when you realize that ordinary life is a dream, just a movie, just a play. You don’t become more cautious, more timid, more reserved. You start jumping up and down and doing flips, precisely because it’s all a dream, it’s all pure Emptiness. You don’t feel less, you feel more — because you can afford to. You are no longer afraid of dying, and therefore you are not afraid of living. You become radical and wild, intense and vivid, shocking and silly. You let it all come pouring through, because it’s all your…
