"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.”
“I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.”
“The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.”
“The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.”
“I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.”
“The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”

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