"If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service."

-- Jonathan Carroll

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“Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.”
“You practice and you get better. It's very simple.”

Source : "Philip Glass: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 9, 2009.
“And lash the vice and follies of the age.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79
“If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.”
“Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.”
“For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.”
“What musicals need is a new me.”
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.”

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