"The jazz musician's function is to feel."

-- Lennie Tristano

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“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
“Winning the title itself is the most rewarding. That is the goal of every boxers.”
“Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. We were both fighting it because he had planned this whole day for me, and we were both pretending it wasn't happening. We were literally driving ourselves to a massage and facial that he had planned and at one point, I was like, "I can't drive anymore. I need to get in the passenger's seat."”
“Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.”
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2001). “Summer Tree, The: Book One of the Fionavar Tapestry”, p.126, Penguin
“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”
“The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media
“I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.”

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