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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Her new friends especially liked the southern phrases she recalled from her childhood, such as her father's remark that 'if I hadn't sold that Coca Cola stock I could just sit and pat my foot.”
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“Panem et circenses.”
― The satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
― The satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
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