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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the…
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... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B.…
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The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
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My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you…
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When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B…
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When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find…
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I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and…
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I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul…
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to…
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I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
— Maurice Gibb
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