"We need help, the poet reckoned."

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Source : Edward Dorn (1989). “Gunslinger”, p.68, Duke University Press

Edward Dorn

#Needs Quotes #Helping Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.”
“Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946”
“When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.”
“The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.”
“Some makeup you put on and feel like youre getting pimples by the hour.”

Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996.
“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”
“Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.”
“I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.”

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