"I'd never been published when I was young."

-- Jack Vance

“I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other...”

Source : Steve Reich, Paul Hillier (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.20, Oxford University Press
“The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.”

Source : Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”
“There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine”
“On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth”
“We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”
“I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.”
“I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.”

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