"People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever."

-- Robert Schumann

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“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”
“Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.”
“What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right.' Now it is only when we understand what he means by this modest little word 'right' that we begin to understand what artists are really after.”
“It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.
“Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.”
“Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.”
“I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.”

Source : "Farrah Abraham Made a Porno Because She's 'Sad Sometimes'" by Rich Juzwiak, gawker.com. May 09, 2013.

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