It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

John Cage
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  1. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. - Robert A. Heinlein

  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By John Cage
  1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  2. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

  3. Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

  4. All great art is a form of complaint

  5. Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

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