Conor Oberst Quotes

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• Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I…
• Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt…
• And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to…
• I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one
• If you love something, give it away.
• They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It…
• I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied…
• So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...
• One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
• The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
• You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.
• We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
• I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do…
• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like…
• The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
• I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories
• We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
• I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my…
• Love's an excuse to get hurt.
• When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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