#co

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. ↗

— Peter Straub

#bit #death #encountered #i #i believe

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. ↗

— Peter Straub

#connoisseur #fear #had #i

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. ↗

— Peter Straub

#appointment #back #bedtime #bit #days

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#consciousness #evident #god #him #human

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#constraints #execution #frees #imposes #more

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

#coordination #establishing #given #including #man

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#becoming #ending #endless #had #melody

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#does #good #imitate #steals