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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."

"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."

"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
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