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“Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.”
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“No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.”
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“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”
Source : John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'”
Source : "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014. 
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“I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.”
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“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.”
Source : Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) p. 9
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“I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me.”
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“Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.”
Source : Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.99, Profile Books
