"Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something."

-- Kevin Drum

#Balls Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Republican Quotes

“Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality, you can just present it. And that's what I do. I have worked with actors and I like it very much, so maybe. I think that would be wonderful to do something like that, as well.”
“But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.”
“Your whole life informs your eye.”
“I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.”
“A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.32, Vintage
“Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.”
“I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.”
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.”

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