"Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it."

-- Stephen Sondheim

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“I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.”
“Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.”
“The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.”
“Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?”
“Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.”

Source : Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.52, Penguin
“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”
“Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.”
“Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.”

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