"Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your place Music, hope and amazing grace Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name"

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Source : Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Stars Quotes #Book Quotes #Sunset Quotes

“If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.”
“When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.”
“It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.”
“According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.”

Source : "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.
“Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?”
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
“All language is political ...”
“I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.”

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