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The real mistery to crack is you.
Bernard Malamud

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

“You forget everything, you are almost insane, everything inside you trembles and writhes, you scarcely manage to set down sketches, one idea presses upon another.”

“great is the satisfaction thereof”

Franz Liszt

“ A younger colleague once asked Liszt why he didn’t keep a diary. “To live one’s life is hard enough,” he replied. “Why write down all the misery? It would resemble nothing more than the inventory of a torture chamber.”

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Friedrich Schiller

“ We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.”

William Styron

“ I have had in my little study in Connecticut all these years that famous line from Flaubert tacked to my wall: “Be regular and orderly in your life like a Bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.” I believe it.”

“Morton Feldman (1926–1987)”

“He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. ”