"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

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Source : Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley”

Christopher Morley

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“We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.”
“Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?”
“This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.”
“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”

Source : Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese
“Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.”
“It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody”

Source : "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.
“Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.”

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