Merle Travis Quotes
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
Merle Travis
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Victoria Justice
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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.
Mackenzie Foy
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
Tom Stoppard
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If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim Gaffigan
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
Paul Auster
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Xunzi
