"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."

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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."

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