"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."

-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Remembrance Quotes #Quality Quotes #Ears Quotes

“All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.”
“Are you the sum total of your worst acts?”
“My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.”
“I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.”
“Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.”
“I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.”
“My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.”
“To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease.”

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