"I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have."
-Laura Marling
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"The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.“
-Laura Marling
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