"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."

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Source : Advice to her pupils. Quoted in Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger (1976).

Nadia Boulanger

“To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.”

Source : Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.514
“When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.”

Source : 2004 In the Observer, 30May.
“One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.”
“Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.”

Source : Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press
“I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.”
“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny...”

Source : "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.
“A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.”
“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.”

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