"The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea."

-- Andrew Weil

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“I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.”
“In the oh-my-God-this-has-to-be-Christmas silence that followed, he struggled to reorder the last six months, to catch up with this reality they'd somehow missed. He wanted her. She wanted him. Was it true?”
“A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.”
“Seriously", Macey snapped. "go. Kiss. A baby" "can you believe her?" Preston asked, coking his head towards macey." everytime she sees me, all she does is call me baby and talk about kissing." Macey looked like she wanted to kill him. But I kind of wanted to laugh.”
“Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.”
“The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.”

Source : Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”
“I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.”
“Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.”

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