"Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end."

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Source : 1940 'Just a Smack at Auden'.

William Empson

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“Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.”
“The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.”
“I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'”
“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.”
“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.”

Source : "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
“I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.
“In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.”

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