"[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment."

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Conrad Aiken

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“I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.”
“When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.”
“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
“What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?”

Source : Lora Leigh (2009). “Coyote's Mate”, p.78, Penguin
“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”
“Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.”
“War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.”
“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House

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