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• Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

  Anne Fadiman

  Responsibility, Writing, Voice

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• Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Art, Philosophy

  "East of Eden". Book by John Steinbeck, 1952.

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• The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Heart, Agony

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Sacrifice, Office

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Book, Intuition

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Jesus, Bird, Stronger

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Beautiful, Memories

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• The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Baseball, People, Aroma

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

  Frank Herbert

  Love Life, Self, Ideas

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

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• The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ego

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• Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Godly, Firsts

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• 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'
  Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Expression

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 31, 1813.

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• The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

  Christopher Moore

  Gone, Bigs, Drawers

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• The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Men, Self

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

  Robert Ludlum

  Arrogance, Collapse

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.332, Bantam

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• Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Two, Feet, Body

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• Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Boredom, Social

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Stupid, People, Confusion

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• We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

  Rachel Cohn

  Music, Heart, What Matters

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• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Hammers

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Dancing, Tears

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.207, BookCaps Study Guides

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