Quotes from authors that died on Dec 4th
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt
Quentin Tarantino 
Nick Lampson 
Ron Wyden 
Leo Tolstoy 
Corin Nemec 
Ian Smith 
Giulio Andreotti 
James Thurber