"Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for."

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Charles de Lint

#Mean Quotes #Mind Quotes #Austin Quotes

“Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.”
“Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.”

Source : "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.
“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2012). “The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.252, Random House
“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black
“(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? â€”Ruth Mendenberg”
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.”
“I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.”
“Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.”

Source : "Through Music to the Self : How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew" by Peter Michael Hamel, (p. 18), 1979.

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