"Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#Brother Quotes #Men Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.”

Source : "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.
“For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.”
“I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.”
“I don't know how to say it exactly. Only...I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. 'I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.”
“I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.”
“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
“What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.”
“In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.”

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