"It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical."

-- Carrie Brownstein

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“Remember the movements that don't look like moving.”
“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
“youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!”
“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.”
“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.413, Macmillan
“The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.”
“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
“The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.”

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