"Why was it that jam always coated me so?"

-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”
“What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.”

Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.
“He travels best that knows when to return.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion: I find him a little uninteresting and cold, sometimes. Also, at first, the thematic material is not of a kind that makes the greatest appeal, but if you keep with Medtner, I think he will take hold of you, and you're very likely to become a fan.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”
“But what I did know was that I loved a girl. And I knew I loved her in a way I'd never, ever recover from. I knew I loved her to the very core of myself. And I knew she loved me back.”
“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.”

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