"This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?""

-- Vijay Iyer

#Soul Quotes #Dissertation Quotes

“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”
“Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place.”
“I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.”
“I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.”
“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”
“Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press
“I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.”
“The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run -- down.”

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