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01c. 1989 AD

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Ani DiFranco / quote

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02c. 1989 AD

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

Ani DiFranco / quote

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03c. 1989 AD

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Ani DiFranco / quote

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04c. 1989 AD

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

Ani DiFranco / quote

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05c. 1989 AD

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people

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06c. 1989 AD

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

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07c. 1989 AD

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

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08c. 1989 AD

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands

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09c. 1989 AD

I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear

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10c. 1989 AD

You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay.

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11c. 1989 AD

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head

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12c. 1989 AD

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

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13c. 1989 AD

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

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14c. 1989 AD

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

Ani DiFranco / quote

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15c. 1989 AD

a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned

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16c. 1989 AD

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.

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17c. 1989 AD

And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,whether or not you ever show up?

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18c. 1989 AD

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

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19c. 1989 AD

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Ani DiFranco / quote

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20c. 1989 AD

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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21c. 1989 AD

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

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22c. 1989 AD

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

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23c. 1989 AD

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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24c. 1989 AD

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

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