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“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”
Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.”
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“Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.”
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“Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.”
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“I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.”
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“I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.”
Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012. 
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“You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.”
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“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”
Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
