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Besides, I came from the eighties, a neon, hair-sprayed decade from which very little music made it out alive.


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Let the magic unfold...
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MARTIN AMIS your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
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Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
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AL FROM We not only need to know who we are, we need to tell people who we are. We didn't have much to say i...
AL FROM He helps Gore by re-cementing the direction for this party.
AL FROM He won voters [with annual incomes of] under $50,000--but they're less than half the electorate in t...
AL FROM We can help parents raise kids by adopting a uniform media rating system and banning marketing of vi...
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ICE T When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
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I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
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MOE Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their...
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KENNETH MAHUKA You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the...
STEPHEN KING I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clande...
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ANN LECKIE Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popul...
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KENDRICK LAMAR florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lin...
TONI MORRISON From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE Collective Soul said (from the stage) that events like this keep the music alive in St. Louis, ... S...
FRANCIS SLAY To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"
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URSULA K. LE GUIN There is a seeking out of the best in others, of that which is most ultimate in them, and exposing o...
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ISABEL WILKERSON Nick Diana had a little tweak in his shoulder [which] bothered him against Southern, and he went 0-7...
DEL RUITER The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.
DAVID MUTTI CLARK My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. ...
AWKWAFINA I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God.
DEBORAH WILLIAMS To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
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Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT