"As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string."

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Source : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Arthur Nersesian

#Ambition Quotes #Self Quotes #Strings Quotes

“I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.”
“If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.”
“War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.”
“Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.”
“Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
“Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...”
“Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.”

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