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So I finally got around to reading "How to Kill a Rock Star" and last night tears were streaming down my face, lump in my throat, the whole bit. Never before has a book made me weep like a baby. It's about a music inspired love story. It got me wondering if anyone else has been emotionally impacted by a book and if so, what was the book? (The only other book that affected me and left me walking away looking at life from a different perspective was "Ishmael")
Here's an excerpt from one of the pages I read last night:
"There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing them. Maybe we carve them into stone. Because that’s what art is. It’s our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for and when it’s time to throw in the towel. Sometimes a person has to die in order to live."
Here's an excerpt from one of the pages I read last night:
"There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing them. Maybe we carve them into stone. Because that’s what art is. It’s our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for and when it’s time to throw in the towel. Sometimes a person has to die in order to live."