"When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it."

-- Colleen McCullough

“I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.”

Source : "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.
“I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“They see me rollinâ€™, they hatinâ€™”
“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.”
“What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.”
“A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.”
“A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, allâ€knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”
“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”

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