"I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible."

-- Dorothy Allison

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“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

Source : Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1873). “The Comedies of Aristophanes”, p.322
“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
“I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.”
“If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.”

Source : "In the Time of Gods : A Conversation With Dar Williams, Plus Chatting With The Sweet’s Andy Scott and Steve Barton". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.”

Source : Stan Brakhage, Arts Council of Great Britain (1980). “Stan Brakhage: an American independent film-maker”
“If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.”
“I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.”
“I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.”

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