"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

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“I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.”
“Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.”
“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.”
“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
“A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.”
“I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.”

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