“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
“Even straight roads meander.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
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American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976Related quotes
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“He can't even shoot straight.”
On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
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