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“ Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you’re free. ”

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I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

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We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all things possible, and the ear is on its way to being free.

~ Richard Powers

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The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

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Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.

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