"Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough."

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Source : Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

Patricia Highsmith

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“Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.”
“Surround yourself with positive people.”
“Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.”
“There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.”
“People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.”
“I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.”
“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.”

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