"If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that poems not only make meaning, but are more often than not engaged in some way with our deepest human issues, be they personal or societal or political."

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Matthew Zapruder

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“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

Source : Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press
“Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.168, Random House
“In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom nobody ever seems to question, believe regarding how to live their lives. And yet, the happiest people I know have been those who have accepted the primary responsibility for their own spiritual and physical well-being - those who have inner strength, courage, determination, common sense and faith in the process of creating more balanced and satisfying lives for themselves.”
“Despair has its own calms.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.50, "F+W Media, Inc."
“This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”
“Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.”
“The first question we usually ask new parents is : â€œIs it a boy or a girl ?â€. There is a great answer to that one going around : â€œWe donâ€™t know ; it hasnâ€™t told us yet.â€ Personally, I think no question containing â€œeither/orâ€ deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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