David Klein
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We have inherited a series of inaccurate and confusing historic labels by which classical music is catalogued,


“As Mr. Aldous Huxley has truly remarked, a dark Satanic mill ought to look like a dark Satanic mill and not like the temple of mysterious and splendid gods.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier

“You could quite easily drive a car right across the north of England and never once remember that hundreds of feet below the road you are on the miners are hacking at the coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward. Their lamp-lit world down there is as necessary to the daylight world above as the root is to the flower.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier

“You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.”
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of Socialism, you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable, and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult issue of class.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier

“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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