"The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer."

-- Steve Aylett

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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
“Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what a kid's limit is in the heat, ... The policy itself that was adopted by the OSAA executive board gives the coaches some parameters as to how to structure their practices and guidelines to follow.”
“This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.”
“I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end Iâ€™m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.”
“One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'”
“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?”
“I am a sucker for jackets!”

Source : "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories". Interview with Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.
“Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.218, Knopf

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