"Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling."

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Source : "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

Justin Townes Earle

#Nashville Quotes #Hometown Quotes #Stifling Quotes

“It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.”

Source : Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing
“As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!”
“There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.”
“I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.”
“I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.”
“As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.”
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”
“What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.”

Source : Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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