"The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony."

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Source : "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

Nicholson Baker

#Song Quotes #Nice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.”
“Enjoy the day as if it were your last.”
“Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige,”
“When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.”
“We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.”
“I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.”
“The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is so remote from the ordinary person, who, it seems, can only be victimized by it, but is powerless to change anything.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.842, Simon and Schuster

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