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John Wesley Harding

"The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself doing it, and in two of the songs I quote two different people (referring to me as Mr. Stace). And it just hit me at some point that it was ludicrous for me to think of myself as Wesley Stace, publish novels as Wesley Stace, be Wesley Stace and not have it released as Wesley Stace."

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John Wesley Harding

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“We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence....”
“There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.”

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“Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.”
“A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power.”
“But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?”
“Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.”
“One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.”
“For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,”

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