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Here, ranked in order from most to least expensive, are super-lame yet super-rare vinyl LPs that cost more than your monthly rent.

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Paul McCartney didn’t have time to take lessons. He was on stage and his guitar string BROKE. He didn’t have time to read a book. Or listen to the greats. He had to get up, sit down at the piano, and start playing.

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From Brooklyn College, I drove to New Utrecht High School, where I was supposed to teach a class in Basic English Grammar. On the classroom’s blackboard someone had drawn a grave inscribed “John Lennon 1940-1980 – His Music Will Live Forever.” Of course I did not erase it.

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“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” —Rumi

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Bills. Need I say more?

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“Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.”

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A lot of these have to do with sex (not surprising).

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Right from the start, La Santa Cecilia respectfully makes “Strawberry Fields Forever” their own.