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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here. ↗

— John Bachman

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food. ↗

— John Bachman

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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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