"Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling."

-- Antony Hegarty

#Voice Quotes #Mastery Quotes #Aliens Quotes

“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”
“I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.”
“When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.”
“As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.”
“While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.”
“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria
“I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.134, Penguin
“The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.”

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