"Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Pauline Oliveros

#Beautiful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.”
“It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.”
“I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.”
“In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.”
“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”
“Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.”
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.”

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