"I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender"

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Source : "Song: "The Pretender"". 1976.

Jackson Browne

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.”
“Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.”

Source : "Can You Forgive Him?" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2002.
“So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?”
“Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.”

Source : Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.”
“The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.”
“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”

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