"What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?"

-- Antony Pay

#Music Quotes #Reason Quotes #Particular Quotes

“The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.”
“Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew â€“ he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.”
“A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.”
“In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.”
“We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?”
“I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.”
“My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.”

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