"I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape."
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"I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better."
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"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
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"Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?"
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"I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages."
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"I try all night to play a pretty note."
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"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
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"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."
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"I try to live life so that I can live with myself."
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"One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering."
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"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?"
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"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."
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"There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it."
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"It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something."
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"With failure, you just try again."
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"Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open."
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"any compulsion tries to justify itself."
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"I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things."
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"Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension."
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"I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form."
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