"It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours."

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George Santayana

#Beauty Quotes #Past Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.”
“Hey, is this room out of bounds?”
“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”
“Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.”
“For me going out to party never meant drinking or taking drugs.”
“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”
“Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.”
“I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.”

Source : Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.168, Hachette UK

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