Quotes From "The Chimes" By Anna Smaill

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When the music comes, you try to see it shining between your eyes. Like threads stretched taut and the notes as colored beads threaded on. When you get very good, it's as if you can see inside the music, through it. You bring the music alive, bring it into being. As if you're the one composing. Anna Smaill
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A new heart for a New Year, always! Charles Dickens
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When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay, " and part of it accepts this. In the end your mind gets to welcome that deadening. that's what I believe anyway. Half of our memoryloss is by choice. Anna Smaill
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Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. Charles Dickens
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A man may live to be as old as Methuselah, ’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the benefit of such people as those; and may heap up facts on figures, facts on figures, facts on figures, mountains high and dry; and he can no more hope to persuade ’em that they have no right or business to be married, than he can hope to persuade ’em that they have no earthly right or business to be born. And that we know they haven’t. We reduced it to a mathematical certainty long ago!. Charles Dickens
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That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me. Charles Dickens
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But some memories are more important than others, ' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person... Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us Anna Smaill
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So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! Charles Dickens
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That difference, that indefinable difference between talent and genius. It is as fine as hair, invisible to the eye and even, most of the time, to the ear. But in her face when she looks at her brother, I see that it may as well be a huge uncrossable chasm. Anna Smaill
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What is it, the difference between ordinary people and those with genius? Not just ordinary people either. Intelligent people, sensitive ones, exceptionally talented ones. Even people like Sonja who give everything and then more, who work harder than seems possible on the thing they love. Anna Smaill