"Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show."

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Source : Song: Fruit Tree

Nick Drake

#Memories Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Long Quotes

“The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.”
“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.”
“I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.”
“Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1994). “Dawn Powell at Her Best”
“I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.”
“I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.”
“A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.”
“He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.”

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