"I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot."

-- Mose Allison

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“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”
“Art always has something of the unconscious about it.”
“Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.”
“I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody”
“I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.”

Source : William Golding (2013). “To the Ends of the Earth”, p.414, Faber & Faber
“If I heard a girl crying help I would go to save her; But you hardly ever hear those words. Dear children, you must try to say Something when you are in need. Don't confuse hunger with greed; And don't wait until you are dead.”

Source : Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”
“You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.”
“There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.”

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