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“I found a new chord the other day. I was like, ‘Shit, if I had known that years ago…’ That’s what’s beautiful about the guitar. You think you know it all, but it keeps opening up new doors. I look at life as six strings and twelve frets. If I can’t figure out everything that’s in there, what chance do I have of figuring out anything else?”

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source: Oct. 17, 2002 interview by David Fricke, in The Rolling Stone Interviews, ed. by Jann S. Wenner and Joe Levy (New York: Back Bay Books, 2007), 440.

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“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

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source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2012), 353.

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medium: Fiction

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“What you look for in the world is not simply for what you want to know, but for more than you want to know, and more than you can know, better than you had wished for, and sometimes something draws you to a discovery and there is no other happiness quite the same.”

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source: letter to her agent Diarmuid Russell, reply to Russell’s Sept. 30, 1941 letter, in Author and Agent, by Michael Kreyling (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991), 11.

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“What a discovery I made one day that the more I spent the more I grew, that it was as easy to occupy a large place & do much work as an obscure place & do little…”

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source: April–May 1846 entry, Emerson in His Journals, selected and edited by Joel Porte (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 351.

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“Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch—walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden […] And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn’t know—music to play, songs to sing, and worlds to imagine and then someday make real.”

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source: The Phantom Tollbooth (New York: Random House, 1961), 255–56.

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notes: Quoted in The Phantom Tollbooth and the Wonder of Words,” by Michael Chabon, The New York Review of Books Blog, April 21, 2011.

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”

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source: Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 3 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880), 267.

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