"Time hurries by, we're here and gone."

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Source : Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”

Howard Dietz

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”
“Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.”
“What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.”
“To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.”
“Weâ€™re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?”
“When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.”

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