“A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.”
“Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”
“There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.”
“Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present.”
“To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.”
“Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.”
“I need a whole other life not to let this one go to waste.”
“I have inflammation of the imagination.”
“Get action, do things; be sane,” he once raved, “don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.”
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”
“Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.”
“And I think that if you are lucky enough to give and receive love, then you can be happy in the face of suffering. I was talking to a friend about this and we decided that maybe heaven is just that...love. And that heaven exists on a day-to-day basis within people. When they give and receive love, that's a little slice of heaven.”
“A dream of tenderness
wrestles with all I know of history”
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