"When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near."

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Source : Title of song (1947)

Yip Harburg

#Life Quotes #Girl Quotes

“Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.”
“Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.”
“When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but itâ€™s also an absolute miracle, that youâ€™re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water thatâ€™s run by a weak electrical signal, and youâ€™re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listenerâ€™s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. Thatâ€™s miraculous, and thatâ€™s where I live.”
“When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
“I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.”
“The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.”
“I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.”

Source : Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications

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