"There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do."

-- Florence Scovel Shinn

“The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.”

Source : Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.
“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live...”
“In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.”
“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.”
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”
“We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.”

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