"I want to write music that will outlive me."

-- Ray LaMontagne

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“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
“In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.”
“I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.”
“...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.”
“Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.”
“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.”
“The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.”
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

Source : J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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