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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. – W. H. Auden

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So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats. – Woody Allen

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O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! – William Shakespeare

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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. – Hilaire Belloc

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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. – Joan Baez

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield

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My wife, whenever Id go off to work and Id be kind of anxious, shell say, Remember, have fun. Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and theres a lot of joy to be had wherever you are. – Jeff Bridges

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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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