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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
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"When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution."
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"But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all-but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now-this very instant-your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man-and that this is certain, certain!"
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"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
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"Execution is something, but timing is everything."
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"Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing."
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"Focus is where you fail or succeed."
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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
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"There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague."
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"A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never."
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
Life
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
Music
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
Family
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
Music
"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
Love
"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God."
Life
"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."
Truth
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
Effort
"What force is more potent than love?"
Love
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
Love
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