5th Symphony

"Whomever understands my music will be free from all the world's miseries."
- Beethoven

natural resource

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber [1894-1961]

Hitchens

life objective

"To be loved and respected by those who know you best."
- Robert Duvall [born 1931]

sticks

"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
- Steve McQueen

assail

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
- Mark Twain

bedroom

101

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”

- Thomas Carlyle 

acting

"The difference between Yale actors and Juilliard actors is that Yale actors are really interesting but you don't understand them and Juilliard actors you understand them but you don't give a fuck."
- Juilliard alumnus Bradley Whitford

clean

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci

strip away

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
- Michelangelo

a place to stay in Washington

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maxim

“In the long run, we're all dead.”
- John Maynard Keynes

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