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“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Stills Book Ends Form Sleep Forget Half Mystery Fronts Priests Improvisation

Book:Jazz Violin

Source: Jazz Violin

“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.”

Life Law Life Is Half Accepting Mystery Lessons Driven Tragic Heroic Again And Again Helplessness

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.”

Persons Used Half Novel Mystery

Book:Steel Guitar

Source: Steel Guitar

“If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.”

Ifs World Believe Mean Existence Half Mystery Praying Deeper Believer Deities Deeper Meaning

Author:Vaclav Havel

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”

Men Love War Age Fun Half Hell Mystery Adventure Despair Discovery And Love Longing Terror Pity Holiness Nasty Thrilling Drudgery

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.”

Source: The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK®

“In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.”

Way Long Term Half Mystery Conclusion Drunk Long Term Traffic Short Term Ambiguity

Author:Paul Neilan