"A melody is not merely something you can hum."

-- Aaron Copland

“A drunkard cannot plead his case.”
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
“The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.”
“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”
“[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com
“Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.”
“Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)”

Source : Jincy Willett (2010). “Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather”, p.53, Macmillan
“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”

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