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Talk to me about authenticity, about who has the right to play whatever kind of music no matter what they look like or where they come from—I say you’re authentic if you play with the kind of feeling that takes you out of yourself to the
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“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Wise Children
― Wise Children
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. ”
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“The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“What is the sea for the man who has loved and left her? She is fire-water, whisky, rum, a roric flame. She is a green-eyed witch; she speaks in tongues. Her coral rings are forged of skeletons; her white shoulders glisten with the dust of powdered bones.
She is memory, the number of numbers, the eye of the world, the mirror of the sea. What is the ocean for the sailor who has loved and left her? The one lover who dissolves the night. A bottomless glass of moonshine.
And sailors? All sea-talkers. The sons of mermen.”
― The Fountains of Neptune
She is memory, the number of numbers, the eye of the world, the mirror of the sea. What is the ocean for the sailor who has loved and left her? The one lover who dissolves the night. A bottomless glass of moonshine.
And sailors? All sea-talkers. The sons of mermen.”
― The Fountains of Neptune
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