"Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife."

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Steven Morrissey

#Song Quotes #Afterlife Quotes

“You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.”
“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”
“...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.”
“Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.”
“That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.”
“The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.”
“That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.”
“Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.”

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