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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But…
— Italo Calvino
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
— William Hazlitt
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It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport.…
— Charles Barkley
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If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me…
— Epictetus
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
— Erma Bombeck
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth…
— Margaret Atwood
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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark…
— Jack Kerouac
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a…
— Paul Simon
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have…
— Jimmy Webb
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
— Lin Brehmer
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Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one…
— Guy Clark
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I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was…
— Scott Avett
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['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably…
— James Taylor
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Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there.…
— Leonard Cohen
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What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative…
— Bjork
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Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept…
— Dennis Miller
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I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.
— Virginia Heffernan
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs…
— William Carlos Williams
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