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3818 English Quotes

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Keep Truth The Wheel
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Start People Them With
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Long Men Will Them
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Sink Same Sane Boat
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Change Only Possible Through
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Hug Drug Love Kiss
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Can Have First Has
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Planet Shall Long Live
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Back Culture You Still
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Empty Sorrow Strenght Tomorrow
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Learn Love Deal Journey
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Together Living Admired Conception
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Boring Going Here Know
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Always Had Human More
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Band Behind Dad Get
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

Believe Best Bring Often
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Feel Individual Just Need
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Across Chords Few Place
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving Course Departing Journey
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Along Always Been Chords
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Always Amazed Even People
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Denial Image Korean Many
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Any Away Does Longer
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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