"Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!"

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Source : William de Conley Broonzy, Big Bill Broonzy, Yannick Bruynoghe (1987). “Big Bill blues”

Big Bill Broonzy

#Guitar Quotes #Wife Quotes #Three Quotes

“They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.”
“Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.”

Source : Howard Bloom (2000). “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century”, Wiley
“One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.”
“A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey”
“Most of the time, it just sat there in my body, until the weekend. After five or six takes of crying, your body does not want to cry anybody. Your body is like, "I'm over this, can we start laughing, or something?," but you have to keep the emotion. It's a really weird process and it definitely just stays with you.”
“Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.”

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