Quotes from Excess of Being

“A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“I need a whole other life not to let this one go to waste.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

“I have inflammation of the imagination.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being

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“They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed us. I'm the last, the very last, and I'm sick, too. So very sick. Hot. My fever burning so hot.
I have to take off my clothes, feel the cold air, splash water across my bare skin. And dance. I'll dance a Ghost Dance. I'll bring them back. Can you hear the drums? I can hear them, and it's my grandfather and grandmother singing. Can you hear them?
I dance one step and my sister rises from the ash. I dance another and a buffalo crashes down from the sky onto a log cabin in Nebraska. With every step, an Indian rises. With every other step, a buffalo falls.
I'm growing, too. My blisters heal, my muscles stretch, expand. My tribe dances behind me. At first they are no bigger than children. Then they begin to grow, larger than me, larger than the trees around us. The buffalo come to join us and their hooves shake the earth, knock all the white people from their beds, send their plates crashing to the floor.
We dance in circles growing larger and larger until we are standing on the shore, watching all the ships returning to Europe. All the white hands are waving good-bye and we continue to dance, dance until the ships fall off the horizon, dance until we are so tall and strong that the sun is nearly jealous. We dance that way.”
― Sherman Alexie, quote from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.”
― Jennifer Weiner, quote from Little Earthquakes

“Never did get my curiosity cured,' she said. 'Some people sit around and wait for the world to poke them. Right here in this old curiosity shop of a world, they say, 'Poke me, world,' Well, you have to keep the challenges coming on. Make them up if necessary.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, quote from Blue Highways

“- Вземете който щете моряк, газил в дълбоки води и срещал смъртта толкова пъти, колкото мен, драснете го с нокът по кожата и отдолу ще намерите философ. Засуканите думи ще са му чужди, гарантирам ви, но ще намерите дълбок и траен усет за мястото му в света.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician: Master

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from The Last Summer (of You and Me)

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