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Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.
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I write out of instinct.
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If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.
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Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.
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It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
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When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
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I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
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It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent.
