"Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?"

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Source : Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.222, Hachette UK

Joe Hill

#Another Chance Quotes #Chance Quotes #Intense Quotes

“It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.”
“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”
“There were many low points and times I doubted myself at work. I've heard no many more times than I've heard yes and there have been long periods in between jobs where money became very tight and I wondered how I was going to pay my bills. I've had to borrow money from friends and family to get by sometimes. That's the part of the 'overnight' success that people don't see. The struggle is real.”
“A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.”
“The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.”
“I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.”
“People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.”
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer, Maureen Lukay (2006). “An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture”, Meiner Verlag

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