Kathleen Norris Quotes
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
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All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
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...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
