"All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice."

-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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“The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking Â— partly for the experience Â— it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.”
“We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals”
“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.”
“More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.”
“If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.”
“You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.”
“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Source : "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.
“I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.”

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