"Don't be afraid to be amazing."

-- Andy Offutt Irwin

“What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads of and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That'd get me off.”
“A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.”

Source : Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.36, Penguin
“A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."”
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
“We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.”
“It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.”
“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”

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