"If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Home Quotes #Joy Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are 'go-to' songwriters that people choose.”
“With me, you never know what is going to happen”
“Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert. "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31, 1934.
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. SÃ©dillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”
“Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”
“We don't know if we're dancing on the show until a couple of days before the show starts, let alone who their partners are before they meet them.”

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