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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. ↗

— Colin Hay

#building #character #destroying #fine #fine line

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#dungeon #heart #inexorable #jailer #other

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? ↗

— Colin Hay

#career #erratic #famous #got #had

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky. ↗

— Colin Hay

#always #angry #beautiful #even #had

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. ↗

— Colin Hay

#cut #difficult #frustrating #just #listening

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#australia #being #california #dreams #find

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. ↗

— Bill Hayden

#carbon #harder #probably #procedural #since

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#community #geography #i #interests #nor