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The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.

Dar Williams

There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Country People Portland Roots
I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
DAR WILLIAMS

Discover Feelings Optimism Optimistic
And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
DAR WILLIAMS

Causes Knows Terrain
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
DAR WILLIAMS

People Play Song
I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
DAR WILLIAMS

Falling Gruesome Height Love
For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
DAR WILLIAMS

Birthday Blow Couple
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
DAR WILLIAMS

Kids Parent People
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
DAR WILLIAMS

Empires Foundation Looks
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMS

Life Romance Therapy
If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
DAR WILLIAMS

Everything Helping Life Lucky
Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
DAR WILLIAMS

Appear Lives Themselves World
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
DAR WILLIAMS

Kids Reading Years
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMS

Language Much Taken Too
I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
DAR WILLIAMS

Change Movement Structure Trying
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
DAR WILLIAMS

Albums Play Song

The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.

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The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.

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