"It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening."

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Source : 1979 TheMyth Makers,'Pasternak'.

V. S. Pritchett

#Looks Quotes #World Quotes #Roles Quotes

“A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'”
“Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.”
“I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.”
“I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.”
“I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.”
“I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.”
“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.”
“You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.”

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