"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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“Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.”
“But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
“Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.”
“Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.”

Source : "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006.
“I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.”

Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.120, Courier Corporation
“I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.”

Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.”

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