"The dearest things I know are what you are."

-- Oscar Hammerstein II

“Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them, but Cole had unfairly skipped to the end of the game, all jaggedly handsome and Hollywood-looking. Not needing any love to get there.”
“It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.”
“No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.”

Source : Joy Fielding (2012). “Lost”, p.377, Seal Books
“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”
“There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.”
“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.”
“I rhymeâ€¦ to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
“I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.”

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