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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want read more
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to read more
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order read more
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
