"A wise man's questions contain half the answer."

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Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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“The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!”
“Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!”
“You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help,”
“Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.”
“I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.”
“Watch out for cliffs on the left. Â Fatal spot again.”
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.”
“Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.96, Granta Books

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