"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.”
“I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.”
“Eventually we have to "settle up" and pay the price for our ethical violations. Just remember the old line that says, "You can pay me now . . . or you can pay me later." Often you can buy some time, but when you "pay later" you'll probably have to pay more.”
“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.”
“When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'”
“After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”
“Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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