"The day is breaking someone else's heart."

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Source : James Merrill (1982). “From the First Nine: Poems, 1946-1976”, New York : Atheneum

James Merrill

“My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.”
“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”
“It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.”
“I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.”

Source : "Antonio Conte vs Jose Mourinho - how did their first Chelsea press conferences compare?" by Jim Daly, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2016.
“I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.”

Source : "Woods". Song by Justin Vernon, 2009.
“While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.”

Source : "PROFESSIONAL WINGMAN: Here's How To Date Women Who Earn More Than You" by Mandi Woodruff, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2012.
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”

Source : Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.254, Penguin
“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.”

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