"The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation."

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Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

George Benjamin

#Friendly Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

Source : Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.”

Source : Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”
“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”
“You can’t shine if you don’t burn.”
“Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.”

Source : "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.
“We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.”
“You don't have to prove anything to anyone.”
“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

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