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“You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.”
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“When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.”
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“I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.”
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“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”
Source : Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf
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“I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.”
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“I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.”
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“Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.”
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“The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.”
Source : "On Doing the Right Thing". "The American Mercury" Magazine, 1925.
