#in

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. ↗

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#always #before #down #explore #going

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#city #corners #different #difficult #difficult time

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#arguing #i #make #mistake #never

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#enriches #genius #school #solitude #understanding

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#corruption #infallible #liberty #most #symptom

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#end #let us #may #method #our

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#exchange #i #india #invincible #love

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗