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“I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.”
Source : Song: Breathe, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005
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“I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.”
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“It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.”
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“There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.”
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“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”
Source : Dorothy Koomson (2008). “My best friend's girl”
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“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”
Source : "The Exorcist". Book by William Peter Blatty, 1971.
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“Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.”
Source : Geoffrey Dutton (1981). “The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call of 47 of Australia's Greatest Heroes and Heroines”, Angus & Robertson Publishers
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“What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”
