"Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy."

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Source : "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

Giannina Braschi

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“If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.”
“When I waked, I cried to dream again”
“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.”
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
“An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”
“Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.”
“I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.”

Source : "Batman: Arkham Unhinged Gets a New Writer". Interview with Joey Esposito, www.ign.com. September 25, 2012.

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