"I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move."

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Source : Source: sojo.net

Denison Witmer

#Jobs Quotes #Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”
“The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.”
“Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.”
“You don't treat cancer - you fight it.”
“The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.”
“Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.”
“The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.”
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”

Source : John Wyndham (2010). “The Chrysalids”, p.89, Penguin UK

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