The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. - Storm Jameson

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

Storm Jameson

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

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Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

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One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

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In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

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. . . we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

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I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

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Chinua Achebe

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it. ' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing. . . this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

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Matt Drudge

You are what you dream you are and become. And, I wish Americans would get out of the sickness and just become greater.

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Barbara Broccoli

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

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