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Arthur Honegger

"To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . Â I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction)."

-- Arthur Honegger

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“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”
“It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!”
“I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.”
“...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...”
“Every reformation ruins somebody.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (1865). “Half a Million of Money”, p.241
“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”
“Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

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