"The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth."

-- W. H. Auden

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“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”
“The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.”
“I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.”
“I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.”

Source : "Stephen Amell On “Queer” Beginnings And The New 'Arrow' Queen". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. August 27, 2012.
“The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.”

Source : Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin
“I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.”
“Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.”

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