“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.”
― Red Mars
― Red Mars
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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