"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."

-- Steve Lacy

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“If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you werenâ€™t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?”

Source : Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.22, Profile Books
“I found a way of working which pleased me because I didnâ€™t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.”
“I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.”
“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”
“What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?”
“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”

Source : Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon
“Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King Jr Quotes.”
“What is stronger, fear or hope?”

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