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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ La's Orchestra Saves the World

    Why? Why is there a crisis in literature? Because of lies and rottenness. Simplicity and sincerity have been replaced by obsfucation and pretense. Men, of course. They love to create mystery where none exists. It's the way they think.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ La's Orchestra Saves the World

    Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ La's Orchestra Saves the World

    Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ La's Orchestra Saves the World

    If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ La's Orchestra Saves the World

    We can't afford to be without God," Feliks continued. "Even if he doesn't exist, we have to hold on to him. Because if we don't, then how are we to convince ourselves that we have to go on with this fight? If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things, too.
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