"It's amazing what some people read into songs."

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Richard Thompson

#Song Quotes #People Quotes

“The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.”
“The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.”

Source : "Have a Drink of Guinness". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. November 5, 2012.
“Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.”

Source : Speech at Verdun, 20 July 1919, in 'Discours de Paix' (1938) p. 122
“The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.”
“There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.”
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.”

Source : Sydney Thompson Dobell (1860). “Poems. Author's ed”, p.217
“I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.”

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