"You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me."

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Source : Billy Joe Shaver, Brad Reagan (2005). “Honky Tonk Hero”, p.187, University of Texas Press

Billy Joe Shaver

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“Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.”

Source : "THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP".
“I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.”
“They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'”
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
“He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.”
“I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.”
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
“My father always says, â€˜Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.â€™ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. Itâ€™s been quite nice because Iâ€™ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what theyâ€™ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.”

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