"every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?"

-- Elizabeth Bowen

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“I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.”
“Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.”
“The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.”
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
“Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?”
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

Source : "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.
“Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well”

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