You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things … - Marya Hornbacher

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Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

Marya Hornbacher

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Ears, Pants, People, Talent

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I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

Book, Dinner, Grief, Move, Moving, Seemed

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Crash, Fall, Hit, Lasts, Long, Real

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

Chefs, Disorders, Eating Disorder, Food, People

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Bundle, Desire, Gestures, Levels, Strips

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Character, Characters, Deals, Human, Nonfiction

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The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

David, Everything, Father, Moving, Star, Stars

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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Gentleness, Mind, Spirit, Tolerance, Understanding

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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

Die, Kind, Like, Rental, Stuff, Zuckerberg

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Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

Achievement, Fantasy, Football, Sports, Team

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