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“Our life's great friendships are dropped on us in strange little ways but for providential reasons. We are meant to encounter our opposites in life and be changed by them – transformed, in some manner.”
― The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest
― The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest
“Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep-Mountain High,” his most ambitious record, with the biggest, most implacable sound and an arrangement that made it feel as if the record lasted a lifetime, not three and a half minutes (“That,” the Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia said, “sounds like God hit the world and the world hit back”), failed to come anywhere near the radio; Spector closed his studio and began lecturing at colleges.”
― History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
― History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
“It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.”
― Me and the Devil
― Me and the Devil
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
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