"I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach."

-- Glenn Gould

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“I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.”
“This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.”
“The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.”
“It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.196, Counterpoint Press
“During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders”
“I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.”
“I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child”

Source : "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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