"Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Sorry Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”
“I love editing, and I don't mind when things are edited and you can see the editing.”
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”

Source : 1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.
“My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.”
“My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.”
“One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.”
“I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.”

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