Rene Daumal Quotes
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
Loudon Wainwright III
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
Phil Jackson
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I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.
Javier Solana
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And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
Jean Ingelow
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
William Cowper
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
Meg White
The White Stripes
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Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover.
Ann Wroe
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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
Beryl Markham
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
