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“I highly recommend enforced boredom as a way to develop your imagination. But don’t take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: “There’s a lot to learn for wasting time.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“I’m amazed when someone sees the sculpture inside a rock while the rest of us just see a rock. I say “hell yes” to the architects who imagine the spaces we will one day live in. And a round of applause for the stylist who sees what hair to cut to make me look respectable for a couple of weeks. I bow low and fast in the direction of those who paint amazing things on the ceilings of chapels, make life-changing movies, or deliver a stand-up routine that recognizes the humor in the mundane. What all those artists have in common is that they point out things that were always there, always dotting the sky. Now we can take it in and live what we missed.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
― Blackwood Farm
― Blackwood Farm
“The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.”
― Lone Wolf
― Lone Wolf
“Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”
― The Queen of the Damned
― The Queen of the Damned
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