"I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting."

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Melvin Helitzer

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“The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.”
“Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.”
“When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”
“But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.”

Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
“We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmthÂ—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.”
“It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.”
“When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.”
“I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.”

Source : "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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