240 Quotes by James Taylor


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    Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

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    There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.

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    O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

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    Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

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    I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

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