"I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody."

-- Bill Monroe

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“The GDR people found love at the workplace, and the West is always telling stories about finding love when work is over and you have your free time and your leisure time. That's when you fall in love. But in the Communist state, you fall in love in the workplace, because that's mainly where you are.”
“But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.”
“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”
“Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.”
“I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press
“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”
“I donâ€™t drink anymore - just the same amount.”
“It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.”

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