"Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed."

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Source : "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

Patrick Rothfuss

#Sleep Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mistress Quotes

“You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.”
“Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.”
“I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that Perry Mason and myself have come to the parting of the road. Perry Mason has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep Perry Mason.”
“Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.”

Source : M. M. Kaye (2015). “Shadow of the Moon”, p.163, St. Martin's Griffin
“I don't see a difference between a biological family and an adoptive one. I think the difference is more in the eyes of others around you, who might judge because you're not the same skin color as your parents.”
“Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.”
“It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 52), 1991.
“The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.”

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