Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Angry Young Man.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)
“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”
— William Faulkner, book Absalom, Absalom!
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
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