"I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me."

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Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

David Grubbs

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pages Quotes

“Man is the measure of all things.”
“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

Source : Richard Matheson (2013). “A Stir of Echoes”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
“I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.”
“I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”
“Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.”

Source : George Ade (1904). “True bills”
“I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.”
“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”

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