"I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death."

-- Donald Fagen

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.”
“This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.”
“Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!”
“French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.”
“Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.”
“There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.”
“Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over artâ€“before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters.”
“Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.”

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