"I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing."

-- Cheryl Mendelson

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“The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition”
“Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”
“Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.”

Source : Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.”
“Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.”
“In any situation, I'm going to be good.”
“Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.”

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