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There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.


Tim Finn


#common #does #finally #had #happen

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.


Jean Cocteau


#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.


Jean Cocteau


#gods #infinity #known #mysteries #mystery

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.


Colin Firth


#adrift #america #appealed #because #been

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.


Leonard Cohen


#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.


Stanley Fish


#absolute truth #although #because #definitively #help

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.


Bainbridge Colby


#character #country #defined #discharge #duty

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.


Kenneth Koch


#good #little #poetry #political #seems

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.


Carrie Fisher


#definitely #designed #dreaming #dreams #family

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.


Ludwig Borne


#illusion #losing #makes #than #truth






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