"We all have our painful pasts we have to get through."

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Valerie Bertinelli

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“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Source : Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”
“In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.”
“Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.”
“In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.”
“Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.”
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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