"A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there."

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Source : Michael S. Harper (1970). “Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

Michael S. Harper

“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'”
“I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”

Source : "An Interview with Kathryn Lasky about The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis and Clark Expedition". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.
“Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.”
“The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.”

Source : Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.”
“Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.”
“Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.”
“There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.”

Source : "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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