"Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer."

-- Robert Smythe Hichens

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“If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.”

Source : "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.
“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”
“When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.”
“The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.”
“No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.”
“I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.”
“What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2011). “Cosi Fan Tutti”, p.147, Faber & Faber
“What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.”

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