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We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting. ↗

— Gene Ween

#advance #ask #been #bunch #call

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish. ↗

— Gene Ween

#ask #came #certain #could #count

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#boot camp #camp #fast #had #kind

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#bit #hand #off #other #own

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. ↗

— Simone Weil

#imaginary #must #paradise #prefer #real

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bread #danger #doubt #hungry #itself

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian