"There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until they learn they can play fair."

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Source : "Hi Neigbour, Salam Neighbour". "For Whom the Troubadour Sings", Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2009.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

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“The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.”
“No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.”

Source : "Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
“For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.”
“Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.”
“The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.”
“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
“I believe I was extremely greedy.”

Source : "Enron's Ex-CFO: Lay Knew of Financial Problems". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2006.
“The greatest possession is Self-possession.”

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