"A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story."

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Source : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.226, Macmillan

Lewis Buzbee

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“Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.”
“I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.”
“The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.”
“Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.”
“â€¦You donâ€™t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?”
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .”

Source : Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
“We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.”

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