"For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house."

-- Pablo Casals

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“Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
“The one key difference is that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory. We don't have representation. We have a difficult time getting funding from the federal government. This is critical component that we need to change.”
“It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.”

Source : Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor
“I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.”
“The I is always in the field of the Other.”
“It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.”
“You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease.”
“Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.”

Source : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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