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Linda Kaplan Thaler

"I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is."

Source : "From “Don’t Mean Nothing” to “Dance With My Father”: A Conversation With Richard Marx". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

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“Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.”
“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”
“The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination”
“What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.”

Source : 1943 Explaining the failure of the League of Nations to the Empire Parliamentary Association, London, 25 Nov.
“When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.”
“I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.”
“All a lot of women see are dollar signs.”

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