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It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.


Steve Earle

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DAVID W. EARLE The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-hous...
ALICE MORSE EARLE The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, whe...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the b...
ALICE MORSE EARLE The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North a...
ALICE MORSE EARLE It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
DAVID W. EARLE Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
ALICE MORSE EARLE The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
DAVID W. EARLE From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first publ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE REAL people do not
have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-unders...
DAVID W. EARLE Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad star...
SYLVIA A. EARLE Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or...
ALICE MORSE EARLE As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received ...
DAVID W. EARLE I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century...
ALICE MORSE EARLE I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE