"It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?""

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Bethany Cosentino

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2159, Delphi Classics
“How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.”
“Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings”
“We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when weâ€™re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.”
“If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.”

Source : Jane Kenyon (1990). “Let evening come: poems”, Graywolf Pr
“I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.”
“There is no rank in sacrifice.”

Source : Josephus Daniels (1922). “Our Navy at War”

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