"If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I don't write free verse poems - mostly because I can't. But I am interested in the musical effects achievable with free verse.""

-- Shane McCrae

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Musical Quotes

“And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms”
“Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.”
“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”
“Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.”
“The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He isnâ€™t so much flirting,â€ Cerise murmured. â€œEither he doesnâ€™t like me or he doesnâ€™t know how.â€ â€œOf course he likes you. Youâ€™re lovely. He probably just doesnâ€™t get it. Some men have to be hit over the head with it. Her aunt rolled her eyes. â€œI thought Iâ€™d have to draw your uncle Jean a giant sign. That or kidnap him and have my evil way with him, until he got the message.”
“Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.”
“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books

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