"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."

-- Anne Stevenson

#Canvas Quotes #Violent Quotes #Slap Quotes

“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”
“Designed to â€˜Effectively Frustrateâ€™: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.”
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.”
“I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.”
“In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.”

Source : "Climate of Fear". www.wsj.com. April 12, 2006.
“I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life is unfulfilled you can either decide to be depressed or you can do something about it.”
“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.”
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

Source : "Progress: Its Law and Cause" (1857)

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