"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."

-- Tom Verlaine

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“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
“I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.”
“Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.”
“He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess”

Source : "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.
“I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.”
“If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.”

Source : "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.
“President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'”
“The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline”

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