Just because we wear sequined suits doesn’t mean we think we’re great, it means we think sequins are great.

—GRAM PARSONS

Anyway, it is said that during the gestation of Remembrance of Things Past, the author gradually became convinced of a frightening psychological truth: Contrary to popular belief, people do not learn by experience. Instead, they respond to a particular stimulus in a predictable way, and this repeatedly. Again, again, again, and again this undeviating, compulsive response may be observed. Again, again, again, and again, generation after generation, the dismal message reappears like writing on the wall.

—EVAN CONNELL,
                                    Son of the Morning Star

So try to understand the pain
It takes so long when I explain
Please, don’t you forget
How much I’ve lied

—GRAM PARSONS,
                                    “How Much I’ve Lied”