"I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work."

-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that itâ€™s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brainâ€¦.Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. â€˜PLEASURE???? I said.â€™ â€˜I donâ€™t understand the question.â€™ I didnâ€™t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.”
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death â€” this infantile fixation of mine â€” was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry â€” with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.”
“Weâ€™re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.”
“In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.”
“A little scorn is alluring.”
“Everybody knows how complicated this country's relationship with France has been, in war and in peace. Certainly there have been times when the leaders of France could have done better by us. We should have done better by them on Sunday. Only you couldn't find us.”
“In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies.”
“Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.”

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