"When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!"

-- Mark Twain

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“I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.”
“I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.”
“To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.”
“Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.”
“My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.”

Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.
“If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.”
“Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.236, Open Road Media
“Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.”

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