"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."

-- Emanuel Ax

#Emotional Quotes #Social Quotes #Should Quotes

“If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.”
“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.”
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.”
“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”
“How many things are there which I do not want.”
“If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.”

Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press

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