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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Chance
― Chance
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”
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“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
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