"For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall."

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Source : PunkTv Interview, March 26, 2006.

Brian Viglione

#Song Quotes #Fall Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
“Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.”
“Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no oneâ€¦.”
“I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”
“If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.”
“I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.”

Source : Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.146, Canongate Books
“I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them”

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