"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."
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"Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it."
"Poetry Site vs. Social Networking Site [10w] Hello Poetry is whatever you want Hello Poetry to be."
"Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in."
"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."
"I had a dream about you. The seasons changed, but you did not. You were the same old person you always were, only older. And I was the same old person I always was, only younger. Yes, I’d discovered the Fountain of Youth, and since we were such old friends, I was going to let you have a swig for 10% off the suggested retail price."
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true"
"I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for."
"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."
"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."
"A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles."
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."
"Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry,"Archer offered."
"It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor."
"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing."
"The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,while the truth tells us we don't know."
"To enjoy the beauty and abundance of life, revitalize your life."
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