"I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing."

-- John Prine

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Typewriters Quotes

“We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”

Source : John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1859). “The complete poetical works of John Milton: together with a life of the author”
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press
“If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.”
“There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.”
“I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.”
“I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.”

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