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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
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