"Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs."

-- Margaret Atwood

“I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.”
“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.314
“I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.”
“When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills.”
“There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.”
“Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?”
“The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.”
“Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.”

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