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“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
― Vera Nazarian

tags: city, classical, classical-music, folk, folk-music, genre, jazz, jazz-music, metaphor, motif, music, musical, place, road, rock, rock-and-roll, rock-music, temple, wild, wilderness

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#2

“Vatican Palace…because in Venturi’s words, ‘Less is”
― Emily Giffin, Something Blue

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#3

“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, amour, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, desire, devotion, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, longing, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, lust, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, paramour, passion, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, romance, romanticism, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#4

“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

tags: humor, writing

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#5

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#6

“But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: romance

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#7

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, moon, romeo-nad-juliet

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#8

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom

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#9

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#10

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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#11

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#12

“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
― Lydia Davis

tags: choice, love, selfishness

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#13

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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#14

“I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

tags: boring, communication, humor, talking

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#15

“So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

tags: addiction

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#16

“She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.”
― Lydia Davis, Break It Down

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#17

“At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

tags: a-double-negative, childbearing, children, mother, motherhood, pregnancy

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#18

“We know we are very special,” Davis writes in “Special”: “Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?” (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")”
― Lydia Davis

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#19

“No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.”
― Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

tags: answering-machine, loneliness, lonely

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#20

“The Outing

An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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#21

“Idea For A Short Documentary Film

Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.”
― Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

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#22

“Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean.”
― Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't

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#23

“She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.”
― Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

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#24

“This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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#25

“But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

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#26

“His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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#27

“Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:

that Scotland has so few trees.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

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#28

“I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine.”
― Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

tags: sex, whales

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#29

“because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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#30

“A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.”
― Lydia Davis

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