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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I am an inventor of music. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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