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“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.”

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”

“I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they [Jews] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction. When I was in Israel it was as though I was in the middle of The Fire Next Time.” James Baldwin, 1970

“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.”