"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open."

-- Trevor Dunn

#Listening Quotes #Age Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.”
“I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.”
“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”
“Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.”
“Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.”
“The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.”

Source : Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics
“I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.”
“The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!...”

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