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“I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that lies complete chaos”.”
“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”
“fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.”
“He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.”
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all expert...”
“Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.”
“They can only kill us once.”
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.”
“Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.”
“You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.”
“Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.”
“Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.”
