I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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