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- We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very…
- I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could…
- Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
- I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
- I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of…
- I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
- Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
- Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
- ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
- I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
- In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All…
- I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
- My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather…
- A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at…
- I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery.
- Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small…
- Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch…
- My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
- Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.…
- The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the…
- I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
- I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism…
- Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I…
- I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale