"I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music."

-- Alan Lomax

#Song Quotes #Book Quotes #Village Quotes

“All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.”
“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.”
“In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.”
“Whether we have a leak or roof that needs to be replaced, we can always count on Premier Roofing Services to get the job done the right way.”
“... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.”

Source : Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”
“Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
“We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”
“Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.”

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