"If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs."

-- Ronnie Van Zant

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“As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.”

Source : Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”
“Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.”
“People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.”
“If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.336
“Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.”
“For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.”
“I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.”
“I've repeated it 100 times and I'm going to look you in the eye, tonight, Mr. Couillard: there will be no referendum as long as Quebecers aren't ready.”

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