"I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist."

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Source : Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.88, Hachette UK

Cees Nooteboom

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“Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.”
“People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.”
“Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. Â I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. Â If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing
“When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.”
“The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.”
“This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.”
“Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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