Where shall I start? Travelling and correspondance are my two main passions, but I also like other things and I'll try to mention them here. |
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'Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind' - Robert Chambert
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READING
'A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should leave several lives while reading it' - William Styron |
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CINEMA
'Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue' - Woody Allen |
'An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow' - Lawrence Barrett |
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'Man is a make-believe animal; he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part'- William Hazlit
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ARTS
'Art without life is a poor affair' - Henry James |
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'A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at 70,
sooner than work at anything but his art' -
George Bernard Shaw
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MUSIC
'Without music, life is a journey through a desert' - Pat Conroy |
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'Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains' - John Philip Sousa |
'I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them' - Ira Gershwin |
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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 |
'Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life' - Red Auerbach |
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'I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music' - Aretha Franklin
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