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The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn. ↗

— Robin Trower

#born #gift #learn #make #music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#human #invented #loneliness #music

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#born #circumstances #contribute #determined #differing

Truth disappears with the telling of it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#telling #truth

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #honestly #i #immortality #inventor

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#analyze #changing #changing the world #communism #deem