"I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did."

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1977). “Early writing”, Bookpeople

Frank O'Hara

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“Don't judge me because I sin differently from you.”
“You have to work hardest for the things you love most.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.43, Random House
“Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.”
“He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muirâ€™s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.”
“Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.”
“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
“Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.”
“The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.”

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