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1. "The only love affair I have ever had was with music." ~ Maurice Ravel
2. "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces." ~ Maurice Ravel
3. "We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art." ~ Maurice Ravel
4. "Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second." ~ Maurice Ravel
5. "For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy." ~ Maurice Ravel
6. "My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation." ~ Maurice Ravel
7. "I begin by considering an effect." ~ Maurice Ravel
8. "Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!" ~ Maurice Ravel
9. "You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel." ~ Maurice Ravel
10. "Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?" ~ Maurice Ravel

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Give me the gun." Michael put a hand out, his voice soft.Tension rode on the sunlight as she listened to Hunter's breathing shake."It's okay," said Michael. "You don't want to do this."Inch by inch, Hunter lowered the gun into Michael's palm, finally letting go.Michael didn't move. "You alright?"Hunter nodded."Good." Michael wrapped his hand around the hilt.Then he lifted it, cocked the hammer, and put the barrel against Hunter's forehead. "Now where the f*** are my brothers?"
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