Quote by Pete Townshend
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by clas

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true. – Pete Townshend

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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. – Pete Townshend

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Anger
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. Im not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. – Pete Townshend

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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. – Pierre Loti

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Lately, Ive been a little sad that Im not a gay man. – Gina Gershon

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If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too. – Doug Davidson

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Im sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. – Christine Baranski

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr

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Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit—the pleasure of simply being. – Paul Wilson

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. – William S. Burroughs

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Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. – Julius Caesar

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