"I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
“'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.”
“Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.”
“I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.”
“A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.”
“When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.270, University of Missouri Press
“I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.”
“Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.”

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