"An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving."

-- Mark Twain

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“There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I love to work. I love to have complexity.”
“Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.”
“The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.”

Source : "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.
“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”
“Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.”

Source : "Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2008.
“She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.”

Source : James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.375, Anchor

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