"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."

-- Carol Ann Duffy

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“I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When youâ€™re searching, youâ€™re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. â€” When youâ€™re happy, you donâ€™t question the world so much. When youâ€™re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery”
“Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.”
“I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.”

Source : "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.
“In chess there is a world of intellectual values,”
“You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.”
“I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.”
“I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.”
“Anger makes us all stupid.”

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