"I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free."

-- Tim Winton

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“The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.”

Source : "Media and Popular Music". Book by Peter Mills (p. 1997), May 16, 2012.
“If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.”
“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves”
“Sometimes divorce is better than marriage”
“The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.
“The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.”
“When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.”
“It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.”

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