"Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music."

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#Appreciate Quotes #Cuban Quotes

“In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage
“We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.”
“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
“I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.”
“If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.”
“Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.28, Laurel Leaf
“I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335”
“It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.”

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