"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.”
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”

Source : "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.
“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin
“I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.”
“You donâ€™t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.”
“The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.”
“I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.”

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