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Virgil Thomson quote: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do..."
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. Virgil Thomson
The thief’s widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself. Salman Rushdie
The daughters put all kinds of things into their albums, little scraps of cloth from their dresses, little snippets of ribbon, pictures cut from magazines -- the Ruins of Ancient Rome, the Picturesque Monasteries of the French Alps, Old London Bridge, Niagara Falls in summer and in winter, which is a thing I would like to see as all say it is very impressive, and portraits of Lady This and Lord That from England. And their friends write things in their graceful handwriting, 'To Dearest Lydia... Margaret Atwood
Alexander Pope quote: "Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree. Of blindness,..."
Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree. Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Alexander Pope
Billy Corgan quote: "I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life"
I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life Billy Corgan
But not really needing to be rescued sort of makes being rescued more exciting, you know."No, I don't know," Keeley snapped. "Go to school, Mo. I've got mucking out to do."I'm going, I'm going. Sheesh. You must be low on the caffeine intake this morning. I'll come by later to see how the gelding's doing. I've got a kind of vested interest, you know? See you. Nora Roberts
Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. J. R. R. Tolkien
You want God? Don't look at Scripture, look everywhere, at the planets, the constellations, the universe. Look at a bug, a flea. Look at the manifold wonders of creation, including the Nazis. That's the kind of God you're dealing with. E. L. Doctorow
Suzanne Collins quote: "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause..."
I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble. Suzanne Collins
Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life. Deepak Chopra
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more. Anne Tyler
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased. Buster Keaton
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer. Emile Zola
James Baldwin quote: "All art is a kind of confession."
All art is a kind of confession. James Baldwin
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays. Haruki Murakami

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