“No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.”

— Alastair Reynolds , book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 555)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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