"What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?"

-- Karl Kraus

#Beautiful Quotes #Freedom Quotes #People Quotes

“I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.”
“Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.”
“With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appallingâ€”an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.”
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.”
“Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
“When you think of the woman's power, you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on.”
“They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.”

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