"The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity."

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Source : Program notes to "Avak The Healer", 1946.

Alan Hovhaness

#Emotional Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Intensity Quotes

“Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.”
“At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.”
“Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.”
“Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.”
“Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”
“We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.”
“It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status. Governments have to let go, people start insisting on following their own lights, etc.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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