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“You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.”
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“I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.”
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“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
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“Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.”
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“Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.”
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“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”
Source : Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill
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“Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.”
