"Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Frederic Tuten

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.”
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
“Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.”

Source : Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”
“There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth”
“Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.”
“The way I think of it is that Russia is not going to change fundamentally. They may change tactics; they may look at their interests and figure out what actions they take, but they're not going to change fundamentally. And they're going to try to gauge what will the responses be to things that they do, and what will our things be. And here, they do wonder what is the level of our resolve? How far are we willing to go? And that is something that is very hard to gauge.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”

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