"Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me."

-- John Prine

#Song Quotes #Couple Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.”

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“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.”
“Imagery is like music.”
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
“The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.”
“We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.”
“I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.”
“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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