"Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you."

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Source : Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

Richard Powers

#Fall Quotes #Past Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.”
“If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.”
“You dont have to live forever just live.”
“It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.”

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“Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.”
“You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough”
“Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.”
“The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”

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