"When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition."

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Dexter Gordon

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“Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.”
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.”
“This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...”
“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.”

Source : "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.
“I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.”
“I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.”

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