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“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
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“It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.”
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“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”
Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”
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“In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.”
