"Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs."

-- Tom Petty

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“For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.”
“We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.”
“I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now...”
“In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.”
“She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...”
“The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.”
“In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.”
“An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”

Source : Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books

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