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John Cage quote: "The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility,..."

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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. Adam Clarke
In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves. Doris Lessing
Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life, and, on rare occasions, happiness. Roberto Bolano
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. L. Neil Smith
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese
James Larkin quote: "Man must be associated with his fellows."
Man must be associated with his fellows. James Larkin
What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear -- in awful fear -- and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of... Bram Stoker
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If you thought hard enough, he’d always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the day he’d realized that it was caused by all the trees waving about. Terry Prachett
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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Herbie Hancock
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. William Osler
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Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly. What its parents did;"Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly. What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'"Et cetera.-NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966) Kurt Vonnegut
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. Daniel Day-Lewis
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