"I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony."

-- Glenn Miller

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“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.”

Source : "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.
“There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.”
“It wasnâ€™t going to be hardâ€¦it was going to be impossible. It wouldnâ€™t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didnâ€™t scare me as much as it used to.”
“I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.”
“The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.”
“Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
“My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.”
“I went out with a guy who once told me I didnâ€™t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, Iâ€™m drinking so that youâ€™re more fun to be around.”

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