"I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same."

-- King Edward VIII

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“I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.”
“The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.”
“People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.”
“Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.”
“Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.”
“For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.”
“I am a maker of useful things.”

Source : "Prolific" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2006.

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