"scales are the grammar of music."

-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

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“I get stronger as the game goes on.”
“I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.”
“If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.”
“You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.”
“Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.”

Source : Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.4, Image
“Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.”
“Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.”

Source : Matt Fitzgerald (2010). “RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel”, p.27, VeloPress
“Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “The Niagara River: Poems”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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