"No one will love you more than you love your pain."

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Edwidge Danticat

#Pain Quotes #Love You Quotes #Love You More Quotes

“My childhood lacked affection and ambience.”
“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
“Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.”
“When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion â€¦ you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.”
“I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.”
“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them”

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