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“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”
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“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”
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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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“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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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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“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
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“If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.”
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
