"8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things that was important to me, I always just wanted to create a song it seemed like."

-- William Clark Green

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“I am pathetically law-abiding.”
“A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.”
“Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.”
“Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.”
“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.”
“Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.”

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