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Richard Thompson Musician
Fall

"An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly."

People Song Fall
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Fall

"Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation."

Girl Fall Family
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness."

Children Fall Brother
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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses."

Writing Character Fall
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Simon Neil Musician
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"Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me."

Men Fall Laughing
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Fall

"- Just do you know, Lenny this isn't a date. - Then what is it? - It's me falling sorry for you, because you're such a loser."

Fall Sorry Loser
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Fall

"I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night"

School Fall Morning
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men."

Men Fall Age
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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
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"Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!"

Life Fall Pain
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Slim Moon Artist, Musician
Fall

"When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it."

Fall Artist Ears
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?"

Men Fall Blessing
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"The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load."

Heart Hands Fall
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St. Vincent Musician
Fall

"It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall."

Fall House Suffering
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