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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.


Brian Ferneyhough


#context #involved #larger #lost #sometimes

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.


Willa Cather


#always #become #bottomless #drop #even

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.


Marilyn Ferguson


#attitudes #beings #change #changing #generation

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.


Nick Cave


#art form #bad #changed #even #exciting

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.


Emanuel Celler


#been #before #black #black or white #color

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.


Michael Chabon


#his #i #i love #love #novel

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.


Michael Chabon


#asked #degree #drafts #except #i

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.


David Chalmers


#before #bottom #consciousness #few #fundamentally

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.


Whittaker Chambers


#call #case #cast #civilization #could

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'


Brian Ferneyhough


#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form






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