“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.” IfsFeelsYearsBookHappensHappenedLuckyTwenties Author:Norman MacCaig
“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.” WritingMightHappensSongTwentiesSticksThirtyFortySignificanceChurning Author:Mick Ralphs
“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.” WantWritingTryingHumansLongHappensHumanityHoursFourCommunicationDrawsGardenLettersTwentiesDressesExpress Yourself Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.” ThinkingWayWantLooksDoeEndsHappensAgeYoungFiveTwentiesSuicideRoundsCommitOld AgeMistTwenty Five Book:Other people: a mystery story Source: Other people: a mystery story
“I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.” KnowsWayFeelsTryingFirstsLittlesHelpingHappensRunningNightNextWaitingHoursFourAliveMiddleAngelTwentiesLuckGladDumbOver ItThis DaySwearBroadwayGuardianNashvilleGuardian AngelDumb Luck Author:Willie Nelson
“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.” YearsRealHappensEyeAmericaBornKnownViolenceRiskStrangeDiedTwentiesThings HappenLatinCowardLatin America Author:Roberto Bolano