"The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive."

-- Dmitri Shostakovich

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“I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.”
“One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.”
“I can make no apologies for following my heart.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Sep 11, 2012
“Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.”
“I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.”
“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
“We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.”
“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like - the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature - you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant.”

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