"A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality."

-- Glenn Miller

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“The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK
“I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.”
“The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragileâ€”it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?”
“The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.”
“I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.”

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