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“J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.”

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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I…

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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and…

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I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.…

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I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how…

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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those…

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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...

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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

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Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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