"Don't worry about things you cannot alter"

-- Catherine the Great

“God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love”
“I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.”
“You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.”
“A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!”

Source : Nicholas A. Basbanes (1995). “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books”, Henry Holt & Company
“I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.”
“I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”

Source : "A Start in Life". Book by Anita Brookner, 1981.
“Itâ€™s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isnâ€™t what youâ€™re looking at. Itâ€™s behind what youâ€™re looking at.”

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