"You can never predict how something will land."

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Laura Kipnis

“Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.”

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“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of natureâ€™s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
“How do I work? I grope.”
“Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.”
“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”
“I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.”
“I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.”

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