"Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band."

-- Tony Visconti

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“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?”

Source : "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)
“The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”
“The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”
“Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.”
“My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.”
“You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.”
“I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.”
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.”

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