"Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that."

-- Michael Morpurgo

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“Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.”
“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
“I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.”

Source : 'The World' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)”
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
“Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.”
“Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.”

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