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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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"I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image."

"You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do."

"You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles."

"Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra."

"Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture."

"I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."

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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."

"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."
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