February 2010
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“The whole human race did something stupid when young - pulled some playful stunt that damaged someone. The secret of survival is forgetting. If evolution favored conscience, everything with a backbone would have hung itself from the ceiling fan eons ago.”
—Richard Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement
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“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
—Zadie Smith, On Beauty
“I think if you are really into words and poetry and situations of life, there is always a little kiss of sadness on everything you do… It’s just the kind of person who I am. I always look carefully beneath the outward appearance of things. I want to know what’s really going on in somebody’s heart.”
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- Stevie Nicks
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“You’re missin’ the point. The success of the band was irrelevant - you raised their expectations of life, you lifted their horizons. Sure we could have been famous and made albums and stuff, but that would have been predictable. This way it’s poetry.”
—Joey “the Lips” Fagen, “The Commitments” (1991)
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