"Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience."

-- Gustav Mahler

#Experience Quotes

“I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.”

Source : Wole Soyinka, James Gibbs (1980). “Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka”, p.111, Lynne Rienner Publishers
“Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.”
“Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?”

Source : "Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?" by Walter Dean Myers, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 2014.
“I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.”
“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
“If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.”
“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.”

Source : 1963 In theManchester Guardian, 18 Dec.

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