"Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?"

-- Eddie Van Halen

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“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”

Source : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”
“The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 294. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.”
“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”
“He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.”
“Thereâ€™s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.”
“The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.”
“If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.”

Source : "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.

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