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Alphonse Daudet
"The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation..."
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Source : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002. 
Alphonse Daudet
#Death Quotes
#Clever Quotes
#Fall Quotes
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“don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?”
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“If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.”
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“Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.”
Source : "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.
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“The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.”
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“The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.”
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“Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.”
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“It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.”
