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Paul Goodman

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American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1909-05-30
Active to
1986-06-13

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Listeners
22
Total plays
90

Paul (LINK) was born in Dublin, Ireland. He plays various 'saz' like baglama, abdal, bulgari, cogur & cura and also 'lyra' which is the traditional bowed instrument or spike fiddle of Crete. Since 2004 he has been living in Greece, mostly on the island of Crete, where he have been learning and performing with musicians mostly influenced by traditional Cretan music. He is also interested in other modal idioms such as Turkish, Balkan & Azerbaijani but have been influenced by many other traditions

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Quotes

  •    The chessboard was reflected in her eyes. Eager to beat her, first I looked on her eyes.    I made a Spanish move, an ancient one, and broken was the red rank of pawns in her light eyes.    Then I lowered my eyes from that chessboard and Love said, "Oh not her; conquer the king if you can."
  • There is a dilemma in any High Standard of Living in a profit economy. I am referring to the embarrassing truth that the best things in life are free. ... things like friendly competitive sports, friendly gambling, love-making and sex, solitary study and reading, contemplation of nature and cosmos, art-working, music, religion.
  • This I did with all my will and apparently indefatigably (but I will one day drop with weariness)—I invented a different practical world that made no sense and took the heart out of me. Instead of resigning, I reacted, in moments of despair, by thinking up something else, and behaving as if this more pleasing landscape might indeed come to be the case.
  • Life gets you coming and going. If you sterilize or police the spontaneity of children, it will return as stupidity, gracelessness, and violent crime.
  • It is not hard to envisage a society in the near future in which self-reliant and autonomous people who know nothing will be attendants of a technological apparatus over which they have no control.
  • Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. … The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don’t more people speak up and say so?

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