"If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive."

-- Wallace Stevens

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“Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed,”

Source : "Bill Gross: 'The Good Times Are Over'" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. January 6, 2015.
“The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.”
“The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.”
“I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.”
“...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...”
“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”
“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
“It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”

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