"So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport."

-- Upamanyu Chatterjee

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“I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.”
“I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.”
“Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.”
“Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.”
“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”
“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
“Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other end of that same guy?”
“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.”

Source : Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

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