#cia

My scars say 'I've lived'. ↗

— Jayy Von Monroe

#musician #scars #life

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#history #social-life #life

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything. ↗

— James Baldwin

#everything #instrument #ivory-tower #life #music

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life

Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous ↗

— Bette A. Stevens

#life-science #social-science #life