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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

- Charlie Parker, "Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Music

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long--people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and fightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

- Warren Ellis, "Transmetropolitan." ( $ ) ( ? ), In Change

Change is the nature of the universe.

- I Ching, "The Book of Change" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Change

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

- Chuang Tzu, philosopher (c. 4th century BC), In Humanity

Take this sorrow to thy heart, and make it a part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Hyperion" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Sadness

The heart is forever inexperienced.

- Henry David Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Love

Who's the bigger liars, men or women? ... Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.

- Chris Rock, "Bigger & Blacker" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Dishonesty

It is terrible and unbearable to an artist to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing, his second best. Throughout the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!

- Monsieur Papin, "Babett's Feast" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Art/The Artist

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

- Michael Shurtleff, "Audition" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Art/Theatre

Judging from picture books, apparently heaven is a partly cloudy place.

- Rilo Kiley, "Don't Deconstrust" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Places

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The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

- Charles Bukowski, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Courage

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