"Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever."

-- William Wordsworth

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“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
“Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.”

Source : "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.
“I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.”
“I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.”
“You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.”
“There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the spirit with which matter is informed.”

Source : Howard Spring (1946). “And Another Thing”, New York : London : Harper & brothers

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