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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion…
— Kim Edwards
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island…
— William Butler Yeats
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I'm so honored to be on this recording with Ann & Nancy Wilson. They are iconic and I've truly been one of…
— Deana Carter
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I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing,…
— Bryan White
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It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing…
— Sheryl Crow
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between…
— Adam Gopnik
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I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a…
— Glenn Turner
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Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at…
— Brad Paisley
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The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart…
— Charlie Worsham
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I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the…
— Bryan White
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Drank in my cup, hope this shit don't spill. Pull up in the new edition and that's word to Johnny Gill.
— Drake
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