Books I Like: Beatrice and Virgil

my favorite quotes from this book...

And work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian. Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials.

The man told Henry that the only native talent needed to play music well was joy.

At one point Virgil says that words are just 'refined grunts.

Don't worry about being good," he used to tell the troupe. "Aspire to be authentic.

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken.

Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness.

But some stories are fated to be lost, at least in part.