"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."

-- Elliott Carter

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“People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.”
“As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.”
“I say, 'Why not' to everything.”
“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. Itâ€™s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, Iâ€™d know it was something true. Now Iâ€™m trying to dig deeper. I didnâ€™t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but Iâ€™m having a hard time with it.”
“If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people and creatures that will inhabit this world. Then buying a Prius is a good thing but an even better thing would be to be on the streets demanding urgent action from the United States' Congress.”
“I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.”
“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”
“You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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