"What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions."

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Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1970). “Zen and Zen Classics: Twenty-five Zen essays”

Reginald Horace Blyth

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“I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Travis Baker". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.
“Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer'S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection P”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”
“Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.”
“I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.”
“Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.”

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