"You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous."

-- Fred Eaglesmith

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.”
“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press
“The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”

Source : Jeremy Bentham, James Henderson Burns, Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1977). “Bentham: A Fragment on Government”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
“That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were”
“Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.”
“If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?”
“When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'”
“Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.”

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