"There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly."

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Source : Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

Boris Vian

#Music Quotes #Girl Quotes #New Orleans Quotes

“Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?”

Source : "Excerpts From Ruling on Internet: 'Statute Abridges the Freedom of Speech'". www.nytimes.com. June 27, 1997.
“You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.”
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
“It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.”
“Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.”
“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?”
“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”

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