"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."

-- John Ray

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“If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.”
“I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.”
“Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.
“A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”
“The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.”
“I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.”
“The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.”

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