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#1

“You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?”
― David Byrne

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#2

“Stop making sense”
― David Byrne

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#3

“You might say that the universe plays the blues.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

tags: blues, music, unierse

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#4

“There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

tags: conversation, illusion, performance, story, storytelling

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#5

“There's always room for Jell-O”
― David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries

tags: future, jell-o-inspirational, truth

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#6

“I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

tags: daily-life, performance, ritual, theater

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#7

“What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music is so good at taking us to?”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

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#8

“It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.”
― David Byrne

tags: fashion, music

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#9

“History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme”
― Seamus Heaney

tags: hope, poetry

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#10

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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#11

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

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#12

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#13

“But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#14

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
― John Steinbeck

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#15

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: east-of-eden

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#16

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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#17

“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: pulp-fiction

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#18

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: poetic-prose

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#19

“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: jerks

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#20

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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#21

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: mysteries

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#22

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: art

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#23

“You're broke, eh?"
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: being-poor, money, poverty

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#24

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#25

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#26

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#27

“I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: coffee

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#28

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

2071 likes

#29

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter

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#30

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: repression, strength

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