"Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always."

-- Cesare Pavese

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“In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.”
“Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.”
“Iâ€™m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then thatâ€™s almost as good as being there yourself. Youâ€™re in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the worldâ€¦”
“For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.”
“My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.”

Source : "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.
“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber
“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”
“No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.”

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