"These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort."

-- John Berryman

#Song Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Understood Quotes

“When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.”
“Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.”
“I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.”
“Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.”
“Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't.”
“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.”
“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”

Source : "Full Employment in a Free Society". Book by William Beveridge, Part 7, 1944.
“They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.”

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