Eddie Dean quotes

“It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'”
-- Eddie Dean

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“Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.”
-- Eddie Dean

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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”

“parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.”

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

“I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.”

“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”