"For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make."

-- Edmund Spenser

“In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.”
“Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.”
“Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.”
“Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.”
“People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!”

Source : "Rose is rising". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
“What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.”

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