"Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all."

-- Hermann Hesse

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“The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.”
“My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.”
“It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.”
“To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.”
“A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.”

Source : Kimberly Willis Holt (2015). “Dear Hank Williams”, p.141, Macmillan
“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in Ð° room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”
“All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.”
“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”

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