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- “I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” — György Ligeti
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- “I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.” – Bob Dylan
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- “When I aim at praise, they say I bite.” — Alexander Pope
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