"There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar."

-- Paula McLain

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“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
“They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.”
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
“Walk tall; look the world in the eye.”
“The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.”

Source : Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press
“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”
“I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.”
“Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again”

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