"You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival."

-- Miles Davis

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“Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.”
“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”
“Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”
“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.177, Harvard University Press
“Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1963). “Improvisation for the theater: a handbook of teaching and directing techniques”
“I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me itâ€™s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.”

Source : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.”
“But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.”

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