"I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head."

-- Mose Allison

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“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”

Source : Virginia Bill of Rights article 12 (1776)
“You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”
“For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.”
“China will be the answer to Japan's problems.”
“There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers”
“I'm always kind of in my head thinking.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.”
“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.”

Source : "No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin People". Book by Evan T. Pritchard, 2001.

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