"Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either."

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Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers

Natalie Clifford Barney

#Wife Quotes #Mistress Quotes

“Love is for children and dimwads.”
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
“The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.
“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.”
“I want to do whatever I can to survive.”
“How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.”
“When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.”
“I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.”

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