"I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery."

-- Sarah McLachlan

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”
“To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press
“I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.”
“Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 221), 1895.
“It takes two men to make one brother.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”
“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”

Source : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Children and Fire: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.”
“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.”

Source : Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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