"The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are."

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Harold Rosenberg

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“Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.”
“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

Source : Karen White (2009). “The Lost Hours”, p.256, Penguin
“He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
“Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.”
“Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.”
“I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual development. It was done from the bottom up. Therefore a lot of the more successful political leaders come from civil society, those that are closer to the grass-roots level of the public.”
“Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.”

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