"If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me."

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Source : Charles MACKAY, Sir John Gilbert (1859). “The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert”, p.126

Charles Mackay

#Kings Quotes #Wretched Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”
“Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.”
“No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”
“A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.”
“I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.”

Source : "Action Bronson in the Lap of Luxury". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”

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