"I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

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“I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want”
“Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.”
“Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.”
“The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul.”
“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”
“But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever”

Source : Marvin Kaye, Orson Scott Card, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley (2008). “The Ghost Quartet”, p.20, Macmillan
“When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.”

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