"A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

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Source : Alan Bennett (2016). “Keeping On Keeping On”, p.296, Profile Books

Alan Bennett

#Shoes Quotes #Feet Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.”
“Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.”
“Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.
“For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her, and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.”
“The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.”
“Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die...”
“I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.”
“Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.”

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