“It all comes down to who's by your side.”

Changes IV
Song lyrics, Teaser and the Firecat (1971)

Source: Dreamfever

Don't Forget Me.
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"That's What America Is," speech given on Gay Freedom Day (1978-06-25) in San Francisco

The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh (1980)

The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004), p. 3

Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Context: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.

Pantala Naga Pampa
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

"Clown", Charmbracelet, 2002. Supposedly written about Carey’s brief relationship with Eminem
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