"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."

-- John Ciardi

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“If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.”
“Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.”
“I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.”
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
“The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.”
“Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.41, Harvard University Press
“I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.”
“One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.”

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