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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Future Focus Attempt Sounds
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Cannot Ease Ill Letter
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying Poem Write Really
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Had Knew Memoirs Write
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Between Contemporary Descendants Differences
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Bleeding Good Like Looks
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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

Religious phenomena Fundamental categories Beliefs Rites
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We should write our history books to prove that we did have a past and that it was just as worth writing and learning about as any others. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation and a people without a past is a people without a soul.

Write History book Nation Past
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I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Could understand Writers Treat women Helpless
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We bought Shoprite for R1 million. Today, it’s worth R100 billion.
We bought Million Today Worth
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Writer Speak Language Different
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Those who happily defaced the Bilboard of the despised opposition a year ago,are angrily burning the billboard of their favorites a year after.

Happily Billboard Opposition Defaced
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I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Write Against violence Fascism Person
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I firmly believe that the role of a writer is the same, whether his society is underdeveloped, or developing, or developed, or overdeveloped.

Writer Society Believe Underdeveloped
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You press men, you always say there are no minerals in Kano. we have Coca Cola, Fanta, Mirinda and the newly invented Sprite

Press men Kano Minerals Coca Cola
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Our political decisions are only as sound as all voices that make them — the youth, the elderly, businessmen and women, artisans, the clergy, activists, writers and petty traders.

Political decisions Sound Voices Make them
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writer Someone Writing More difficult
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

My brain Sight Write Lark instead
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Thank you to all Corporate Organisations and good spirited individuals who lend their hands in our effort to secure our dear State against the Coronovirus scourge.

Thank you Corporate organisations Spirited individuals Lend
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Only medicine Crime Woes Mankind
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Book To read Been written You must
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One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

Favorite things Seeing Two people Really old
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We inherited a system that was generating barely 300 million monthly and we were able to jack it up to slightly above 1 billion on monthly basis.
We inherited System Generating Monthly
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live

Writing Mode Write I live
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye

A writer Spectator Looking at everything Critical eye
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are

Who write Reflect About life You are
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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Every new “pandemic” shows up and rewrites various rules of engagement. Especially in the early days when understanding of the disease is rudimentary and fear and panic are at an all-time high.

Every new Pandemic Rewrites Rules
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe The truth Every man Indifferent
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you are every thing i want to write in a poem, like this when my heart will not hush a storm bounds in bloodlines with blue ink and in oxygen carrying natal scents of you

You are Every thing My heart Storm bounds
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The night writes deeply into me.i'm forbidden to condemn life.

The light Write deeply I'm forbidden Condemn life
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Making people imagine things is part of the work of a writer.
Making people Imagine things Work Writer
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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

A writer Automatically Suspicious character
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I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Bad person Write Good book Us better
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world

Heart Always breaking Through Broken window
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Write Character Hate Fear
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Illitrate Century Read Write
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A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Person's tragedy Make up Entire life Story carves
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

I Retiring Writers Never
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Dangerous game Write A song A person
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My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

Advice Wait Struck Idea
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Writers Job Tell Truth
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

Not here Ignorant people Happy Write
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More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Write about I know The experiences My life
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