Raymond Queneau Quotes
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
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In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
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It could be anybody abusing drugs. This seminar brought to light all the other testing kits available to the Sheriff's Department.
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First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
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To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
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Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
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We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
