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"Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity."
-- Beth Gibbons
"The thing that I'm into is the philosophy of the music. I love the surprise of things, the accidents--just the sound of a word, to try to express them in the best way, so that the emotion is totally revealed."
-- Beth Gibbons
"No, I'm not trying to save on psychiatrist's bills. It's more me asking, 'does anyone else feel this way?' And if it does reach the point where it gets uncomfortably personal, I tend to disguise what I'm saying in the phrasing."
-- Beth Gibbons
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
-- Edward Gibbon
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
-- Elizabeth Bibesco
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen
"Lately I feel that I'm living in a badly written, badly directed foreign movie that's running on late-night TV in black-and-white with lots of static and inadequate subtitles."
-- Carolyn, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Sheri S. Tepper
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-- Elizabeth Taylor