"If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway."

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Source : Lavinia Greenlaw (2015). “The Importance of Music to Girls”, p.75, Faber & Faber

Lavinia Greenlaw

#Gone Quotes #Cry Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.”
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
“Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics explains Trump. The US is doing relatively well, the economy has significantly recovered since 2008, unemployment rates are low. I would say rather that his appeal to the working class was cultural: "I'll bring back the kinds of jobs your fathers had," and, by implication, the whiter, simpler post-war world when America had no real economic competition.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”

Source : "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.
“One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.”
“Few things are as essential as education.”
“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”
“Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.”

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