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“What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Someone addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“And if I went back to sleep and slept for forty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of Melody Radio in an old people's home, I wouldn't worry that much, because the worst of life, i.e. the rest of it, would be over. And I wouldn't even have had to kill myself.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“The groove took me and I let it do what it wanted”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.”
― David Byrne, Social Exclusion

“Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.”
― Sinead O'Conner

“Only if this were a film would I consider it real”
― Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
― Werner Herzog

“If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.”
― Werner Herzog

“It takes the poetic imagination to make visible a deeper layer of truth.”
― Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

“I never see the truth as a fixed star on the horizon but always as an activity, a search, an approximation.”
― Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“But even beyond that I don't believe that books, even bad books, corrupt us. Instead I believe books challenge and interrogate, they give us windows into the lives of others and give us mirrors so that we can better see ourselves. And ultimately if you have a world view that can be undone by a novel, let me submit that the problem is not with the novel.”
― John Green

“When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say."

"Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise."

"What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?"

"You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another."

In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”
― Nietzche

“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life; then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity:—finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing: and now it continues to compel and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it.— But that is what happens to us not only in music: that is how we have learned to love all things that we now love. In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fairmindedness, and gentleness with what is strange; gradually, it sheds its veil and turns out to be a new and indescribable beauty:—that is its thanks for our hospitality. Even those who love themselves will have learned it in this way: for there is no other way. Love, too, has to be learned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Had I become so rich that I could neglect some of my possessions?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“A life lived in the service of humanity, a love of and respect for all living things - those attributes are the essence of saintlike behaviour.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
― Max Frisch, Homo Faber