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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
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There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
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Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
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