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Ray Davies

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

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"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."

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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

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"I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco."

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"I like perfume and flowers."

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"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

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"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."

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"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

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"Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done."
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"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."
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"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."
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"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."
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"People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed."
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"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."
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"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
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"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
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