Eric Garcia

Person · Open Library

Works

20

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1942-08-01

Active to

1995-08-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

339

Total plays

3,886

“My mom had a profound effect on me, teaching me about art, introducing me to many artists, taking me to galleries and analyzing paintings. When she developed dementia, she reached a point where we couldn't talk anymore, so I would go and play guitar for her and kiss her forehead. She liked that – still does. She played these songs for me when I was young, and now I do it for her.” – Eric Garcia Songs for Shifra is a world of memories. As Shifra Goldman lies in a hospital bed in the final stag

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Quotes

• “When Melinda filed for divorce, she wrote down only two words as her reason for seeking a dissolution of our two-year marriage: Incontrovertibly self-absorbed. Or is that three words? No matter. The question I have is: Did she mean me or her?”
• “I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.”
• “Like me, he would turn to the one thing that had always sustained him through difficult times, the one piece of hide-saving equipment with which the military way of life had vested us:We could kill people and not care all that much.”
• “Due to the nature of my profession, I’ve been around death quite a lot, and while I’m not exactly on a first-name basis with the Reaper, we’ve exchanged business cards enough times to give each other a friendly nod when we pass by on the job.”
• “True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.”
• ““We had a good day,” Tig said, slapping me on the back.“Got a whole mess of ’em, didn’t we? Two fifty-eight confirmed.”“Forget the numbers. You woke up this morning, and you’re going to sleep tonight. In my book, that’s a good day.”In recent months, I have adopted Tig’s philosophy.”

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