The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.
Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.
Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.
It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.
I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.
As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.
I don't like conflict.