"I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'"

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Source : "He does this, he does that" by Charles Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2003.

Frank O'Hara

#Running Quotes #Stars Quotes #Knives Quotes

“To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.”
“I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?”

Source : Song: Primetime, Album: The Electric Lady, 2013
“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
“It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent idea I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends”
“I stand proud, but I never said my pledge allegiance”

Source : Song: Capital STEEZ
“It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests.”
“My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.”
“For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.”

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