"God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same."
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"'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed."
"Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?"
"What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been."
"Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe"
"By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!"
"For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought."