"For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none."

-- Alfred Schnittke

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“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.”
“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”
“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.”
“Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.”
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.”

Source : "'This Is A Big Deal': Sen. Amy Klobuchar On Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 7, 2016.
“I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”
“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation
“In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.”

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