"The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies."

-- Andre Maurois

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”

Source : "Irishness". New Statesman, January 17, 1959.
“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“And would'st thou evil for his good repay?”
“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...”
“People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.”
“Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.”
“they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.”

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