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How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life! ↗


— Pablo Casals


#beauty

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely. ↗


— Richard Bachman


#charlie #decker #grace #king #psychology

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. ↗


— Jane Austen


#classics #marriage #men #possessiveness #single-men

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . ↗


— Stephen King


#ben #dystopia #king #life #man

You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life. ↗


— Richard Bachman


#charlie #decker #king #philbrick #rage

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways. ↗


— Eric Siblin


#cello #cello-suites #diamonds #music #poetry

Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty. ↗


— Richard Bachman


#charlie #decker #grace #king #rage

He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual. ↗


— Richard Bachman


#breathing #charlie #decker #king #rage

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. ↗


— Honore de Balzac


#make #pregnancy #sly #smile #some

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ↗


— Francis Bacon


#breakfast #dinner #fine #flat #life






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