"There is nothing like a fine Italian sound."

-- Itzhak Perlman

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“To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.”

Source : "Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites". Book by Kate Christensen, www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.
“If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.”
“The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.”
“My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.”

Source : Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”
“Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.”
“mistakes are really not that big of a deal. in fact , as most of us acknowledge we need to make mistakes in order to learn and grow”

Source : Richard Carlson (2013). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking Over Your Life”, p.165, Hachette UK
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

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