"Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality."

-- Robert Haven Schauffler

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“You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.”

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“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.”
“I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.”

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“A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.”
“I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe, those who ratified the constitution conceived, that this is not an indefinite government deriving its powers from the general terms prefixed to the specified powers - but, a limited government tied down to the specified powers, which explain and define the general terms.”
“There is a window from one heart to another heart.”
“No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be inâ€¦ and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind ofâ€¦ glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.”

Source : Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism
“Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.”

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