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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #book #exposed #figure #find

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#american #among #between #countries #differences

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ↗

— Don Marquis

#always #ever #feel #good #man

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ↗

— Don Marquis

#human #human race #obstacle #progress #race

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#again #audience #how #i #i do

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do. ↗

— Mick Mars

#attitude #different #different attitude #drank #had

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#called #dancer #dancers #feet #freaked

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. ↗

— Mick Mars

#bring #classical #classical guitar #few #guitar

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cd #could #couple #everything #get

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy