"The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people."

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Source : Song: Clementine, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer

#People Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source : Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
“She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...”
“I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.”
“Never moon a werewolf.”
“It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.”
“Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !”

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