“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks its true.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)
“Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.”
The Eight Human Talents (2001)
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Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
From The Teaching of Buddha http://www.bdk.or.jp/english/about/popularization/buddhist-scriptures.html, by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism), Pg 132. It is a paraphrased version of Section 10 of the Sutra of Forty-two Sections <br class="br">Unclassified
Linah Mohohlo (1952–2021) Botswana banker
Source: PRODUCTIVITY WEEK DINNER DANCE ADDRESS https://www.bankofbotswana.bw/sites/default/files/speech-documents/productivity-week-dance-october-25-2001.pdf (October 25, 2001)
“Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.”
Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace
Source: Forever Peace (1997), pp. 44-45
“I have lit my treasured candles,
one by one, to hallow this night.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: I have lit my treasured candles,
one by one, to hallow this night.
With you, who do not come,
I wait the birth of the year.
Dear God!
the flame has drowned in crystal,
and the wine, like poison, burns
Old malice bites the air,
old ravings rave again,
though the hour has not yet struck.
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom, Scene Seven
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Context: Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out! — for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Everybody calls me Mr. President. It's true. It's a funny thing.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
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Chris Cillizza
WLOS.com
https://wlos.com/news/local/analysis-the-51-most-outrageous-lines-from-donald-trumps-nc-rally
2019, July 2019
Thich Nhat Tu (1969) Vietnamese philosopher
Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008)