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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

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John Irving

John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”

“Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.”

Real Used Subjects Harmony Rhythm Theme Melody Composer Vary Old Days

Author:Johannes Brahms

“Life is no way to treat an animal.”

Way Life Is Animal Treats

Book:If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.”

Faces Forever Feet Color Moon Lays Demon Mist Tombs Ghastly Crimson

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”

Ifs Inspirational Enough Inspiration Motivational Being Yourself Good Enough Being Single

Author:Carl Rogers

“The only realism in art is of the imagination.”

Art Imagination Art Is Realism

Book:Imaginations

Source: Imaginations

“I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.”

Stills Care Running Young Sun Sea Arms Hot Wide Naked Beach Sand Diamond Plunge Fling Windy

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.”

Ifs Writing Stories Wanted Written Messages Sermons

Author:Philip Pullman

“Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.”

People Political Party Political Parties

Author:Tony Abbott

“A symphony is no joke.”

Jokes Symphony

Author:Johannes Brahms

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