#rot

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#i #i do #legacy #protect

Doubt is the brother of shame. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#doubt #shame

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#chandler #committed #gave #murder #once

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#asked #been #before #both #brotherhood

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#child #friends #had #i #i remember

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#called #ever #first #friend #friends

The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#family

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. ↗

— Epictetus

#ever #his #more #much #remember

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing