"Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining."

-- SaigyÅ

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“If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.”
“Every day, put a little makeup on, put on some nice underwear, and you'll keep your husband.”
“If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”
“We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us.Â We are afraid of not having lived.”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”

Source : "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.
“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”
“One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.”

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