"Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still."

-- Alfred Austin

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“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”
“You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.”
“Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.”

Source : "Graham Parker on reuniting with The Rumour, constructing the flow of an album, and more". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2012.
“I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.”
“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Source : Judith Butler (2014). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"”, p.2, Routledge
“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.”
“A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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