"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

-- Marcel Proust

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“My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can take with them and into their lives. That's what the artists I love have always done for me and that's what I have always admired and tried to emulate in my own performances. I still believe that music stands alone in its power to communicate "spirit", whatever that might mean to any given fan. It's a mystery and it's something I still find so exciting and challenging at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net
“As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.”
“I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.”
“Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.”

Source : George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)
“The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?”

Source : Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.104, Univ of California Press
“I'd been broken beyond repair.”
“Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?”
“Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.”

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