Fran Lebowitz - About hope - 125143

"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.“

-Fran Lebowitz

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."

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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."

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