#sessions

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

Real value come from nature and human resources, both of which we already possess. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#possessions #value-of-life #life

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#loss #posessions #transience #nothing

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999! ↗

— Adrian Belew

#dates #expect #few #going #keep

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liberty #most #possessions #precious

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#lot #normal #played #real #sessions

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#could #i #just #musically #never