"The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer."

-- F.B. Meyer

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“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Ellen L. Arnold (2000). “Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko”, p.27, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really romantic" "No, umm... I actually... never mind"”
“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”
“Men fear being used; women fear being used up.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.170, iUniverse
“Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (â€œLesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), Iâ€™ve always stolen from the people I admire â€“ not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites AndrÃ© Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: â€œEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
“Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”

Source : William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin
“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.”

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