“There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.” PeopleMenStillsSocialStreetsMen And WomenCurrentsCrowdsQuartersSparesOutlookInputOutlook On Life Author:Abbey Lincoln
“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.” PeopleMenFirstsHumansMayTwoWarMomentsFormLeftGenerationsObjectsParticularGuitarCrowdsPopsJustifyGatheringCravingSlidesSurveillanceEmbodimentLoneWoodstockMonterey Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.” MenWorkSolitudeCrowdsBreatheToil Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.” MenMindMayArtEyeFormHoursWalksWiseMeditationGeniusSolitudeTablesCalmCrowdsFollyDistractionArtificialRetiredAssembly Author:Isaac D'Israeli