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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
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“You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must use it to hope on. Key to the dream country where all your people are whole again, and the gunboats can't reach you, and the Empire of Hate is rubble. You and your secret dream of freedom are the tidal wave. Keep watch, every night if you have to. As for sleeping, you can sleep when you're dead.”
― Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
― Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
“and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred tears of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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