"I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING."

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Holly Black

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“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”
“No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."”

Source : Paul Tsongas (1992). “Heading Home”, Vintage
“What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you hear everything about them in those moments. They reveal themselves in ways that cannot be revealed any other way, and it contains historical truths because of that. To me, that is the most important thing. It shouldn't be a footnote, or the last chapter. It should be the complete thesis about a book on listening.”
“The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.
“When in doubt, grab power.”
“I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.”
“A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.”
“I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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