John Drinkwater Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
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Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
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In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.
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Hiraeth means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.
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If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.
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I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
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The written word is everything.
