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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.


“Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents...You don't have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man’s-land is yes-man’s-land.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“If you’re not at the table you’re on the menu?”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“I’m not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there’s a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
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