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Brenda Shoshanna

"When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another."

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Brenda Shoshanna

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“I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.”
“I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.”
“I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.”
“The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.”
“Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.”

Source : "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.
“Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.”
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
“You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.”

Source : "Beach Boys' Mike Love Vs. Brian Wilson: Battle of the LA Times Letters" by Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2012.

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