Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. - Al Stewart

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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany. . . . One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Al Stewart

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Art, Eventually, Face, Media, Pretend, Uprising

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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Eternity, Peer, Peers, Reality, Running, Turning

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Empire, Fall, Future, Past, Remember, Sooner

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas. I wish I did it half as well as them.

Half, Literati, Wells, Wish

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

Country, Folk, Rap, Thing, Three, Two

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David Foster Wallace

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

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Emily Yoffe

I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.

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Mircea Eliade

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany. . . . One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

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Peggy Lee

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Course, Disease, Music, Music Love, Retire, Singing

Ouida

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

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