"They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parentsÃ¢Â€Â™ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways."

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Source : Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

Vern Rutsala

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“You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.”
“Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.”
“There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must be ourselves, Africans, a people oppressed and in struggle. And we must be self-conscious about this.”

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“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.”

Source : "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
“I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is how I walk on set. And I have to - I mean, I'm controlling 150, 200 people, and everything is on me.”

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“I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.”

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“The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.”

Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe”

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