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“I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.”
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“Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.”
Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.147
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“We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?”
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“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”
Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
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“Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.”
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“I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.”
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“Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.”
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“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”
Source : Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, p.59, Algonquin Books
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“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”
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“Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.”
