"I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week."

-- Pete Seeger

#Song Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Library Quotes

“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.34, Pan Macmillan
“You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.”

Source : Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins
“You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.”
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.”
“It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.”

Source : "Fictional character: Judge Elihu Smails". "Caddyshack", 1980.
“To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.”
“This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.”
“Warâ€¦next to love, has most captured the worldâ€™s imagination”

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